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Edward to change from a bronze chair to an 'Neither do I think that the eponymous of the
OAKEN chair, and again he appears to have
looked back on the history of the Children of elite tribe of Dan -- only we are so used to
Israel: 'And Joshua...took a great stone, and set confine ourselves to the soil of Palestine in
it up there under an oak,...(Joshua 24:26).'
-- Wake Up! July/September 1993. scripti gleboe, and ignore the share they may
The Restless Danites
'The eponym DAN is found to be a root-name
applied to some of the most famous sections
of the ancient GREEKS and their leaders. The
derivatives of this name include Danaus,
Danae, Danaans, Danoi, Danaoi, Danaids.
According to Thucydides (Peloponnesian
War), the earliest immigrants to Greece were
called PELASGIANS. Danaus, who later ar-
rived with his followers FROM EGYPT,
commanded that all should be called
DANAANS (Strabo). Hecateus of Abdera, a
Greek historian of the early third century
B.C., records that there had been an expulsion
of 'ALIENS' from Egypt and that some of
these, under their leaders Danaus and Cad-
mus, migrated into Greece, though the greater
part followed Moses. Confirming this, Dio-
dorus Siculus states that those who left Egypt
with Danaus settled in ARGOS, and that --
according to contemporary belief -- ATHENS
also was colonised from Egypt. Strabo says
that the Danaans colonised the regions round
about Lemnos and Imbros; also that some of
them sailed from those islands with TYR-
RHENUS to the region of Italy neighbouring
the Tyrrhenian Sea, their descendants becom-
ing known as ETRUS- CANS. In his 'History
of Greece' Dr. William Smith says that of all
the heroic families of Greece, none was more
heroic than the DANAANS OF ARGOS. 'As
early as 1852, Dr. R. G. Latham, a well-
known ethnologist of his day, identified the
Greek Danaans as being of the TRIBE OF
DAN. His words form a masterly conclusion:
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Argive 'Danai' was other than that of the Isra-
our consideration of the history of the Israel-
ites, that we treat them as if they were ad-
have taken in the ordinary history of the world.
Like priests of great sanctity, they are known
in the holy places only -- yet the seaports be-
tween Tyre and Ascalon, of Dan, Ephraim and
Asher, must have followed the history of sea-
ports in general, and not have stood on the
coast for nothing. What a light would be
thrown on the origin of the name 'Pelop-o-
nesus,' and the history of the 'Pelop-id' family,
if a bona fide nation of 'Pelopes,' with une-
quivocal affinities, and contemporary annals,
had existed on the coast of ASIA! Who would
have hesitated to connect the two? Yet with the
DANAI and the TRIBE OF DAN this is the
case, and no one connects them' ('Ethnology of
Europe').
-- Wake Up! November 1977.
Make Way
Make way through the turmoil of the times.
Make a highway for the Prince of
Peace...
Clear a path through trial and turbulence.
Bid violence subside and anger cease.
Make way for the Lord of all to ride --
the road of glory, truth and light to bring.
He comes to judge the nations and to reign
-- on the throne of ancient Israel --
In David's city -- New Jerusalem --
reclaimed by Britain from the infidel
As foretold in Daniel's prophecy;
the power of Evil curbed, the power of
Love set free.
-- PATIENCE STRONG