Gleanings of antiquities / By John Beaumont, Gent.

  • Beaumont, John, -1731.
Date:
1724
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    Dr.Rauiuolfe, in the account of his Travels, writes. That the Greeks have at Jerufalem the Temple of Mount Calvary, the Place of Skulls whereon Chrift was crucified, and alfo the beautiful Chancel that is in the middle of the Church ; wherein is a round Hole, about a Span over, in a Stone which is, as they pretend, the middle of the Earth : according to the Words of David, when he fays, God who is my King, from the beginning, has framed us in the middle of the Earth. I may add here what is faid, Ezek. C. v. V. 5. *Thus fays the Lord Jehovah, that is Jerufalem, 1 haze placed it in the midfl of the Nations, and the Earth round about it. And Buxtorf,’ in his Lex. Chald. Ehalm. p. 2054. tells us, that the Rabbi nifts fay the World is like to the Eye, whofe White is re- prefented by the Ocean, which furrounds the whole World, the Black is the World itfelf; the Apple that is in the Black, is Jerufalem; and the Image which is feen in the Apple, is the Sanbtuary. We know it has been a politick Practice for Princes to place their chief Seats in the Hearts of their Country, for an eafy difpatch to all their Provinces, as occalions might require ; and this holds as well in Spiritual Affairs, as in Temporal. As for thofe who would be more critically knowing lrow Jerufalem came to be called the Navel of the Earth, I refer them to the Liber Ccfri, publifiled by Buxtorf, in He¬ brew and Latin, at Bajil, in the Year 1660. where, in his Notes, he has inferred what Mr. Selden has written on that Point. It feems flrange how the Peruvians fihould fall in with the Notion of thefe Parts of the World, in calling their chief Town Cufco, the Navel of the Earth* the' word Cufco fig ni lying a Navel: Concerning which, Garcilliffo de la Vega, in his fecond Book, c. 11. of the Tncas, writes thus : The Empire of the Kings, Tncas, was by themfelves divided into four Parts, which they