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ANd first, for the true place where the Arke rested after the floud, and from what part of the world the children of Noah trauailed to their first settlement
and plantation, I am resolued (without any presumption) that therein the most wri∣ters were vtterly mistaken. And I am not led so to thinke out of my humour or new∣nesse of opinion, or singularitie; but doe herein ground my selfe on the originall and first truth, which is the word of God, and after that vpon reason, and the most pro∣bable circumstances thereon depending. For whereas it is written, that the Arke stai∣ed* 1.1 vpon one of the mountaines of Ararat, which the Chaldaean Paraphrast hath conuer∣ted Kardu, meaning the hils Gordaei or Gordiaei in Armenia the greater: (as the wordes Gordaei and Kardu, seeme to bee one and the same) of which opinion also the most of our Interpreters are; I finde neither Scripture nor reason which teacheth any such thing: (to wit) that it rested on that part of Ararat, which is in the greater Armenis. [unspec 10] * 1.2 Nicolaus 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cals this mountaine of Ararat, Baris, being the same which the Chaldaean nameth Kardu, to which mountaine the Fryer Annius (citing this place out of Iosephus) makes him finde another adioyning, called Ocila, and to say that the Arke (of which Moses the Lawgiuer of the Hebrewes wrote) did first take ground on this 〈◊〉〈◊〉. But I doe not finde any such mountaine in being, as this Ocila; neither is there any mention of it in the place of Iosephus. Strabo remembreth a Promontorie in A∣rabia foelix, of that name, and Plinie findes a Mart-towne so called in the same, which 〈◊〉〈◊〉 cals Ocilis, Pinetus Acyla, and Niger Zidon. But this Ocila of Damascenus, or ra∣ther of Annius, seemeth to bee one and a part of the Armenian mountaines. Berosus calleth those mountaines of Armenia Cordiaei, and Curtius Cordaei: Ptolomie Gordaei [unspec 20] and Gordiaei: of which the Countrie next adioyning is by this Nicolaus Damascenus cal∣led Ninyada, perhaps (as Becanus coniectures) for Milyada or rather Minni: which* 1.3 word is vsed for Armenia Minor. And the very word of Armenia seemes to be com∣pounded* 1.4 of this word Minni, and Aram: as if we should say Minni of Syria; for that Armenia also was a part of Syria, Plinie witnesseth. Epiphanius placeth the Cardyes a∣bout these mountaines, whom others call Gordieni or Gordeni. The mountaines are seated apart from all other to the North of that Ledge of mountaines called Taurus, or Niphates in the plaines of Armenia the great, neere the Lake Thospitis: whence the Riuer of Tigris floweth in 75. degrees of longitude, and 41. and 42. degrees of lati∣tude. One of the mountaines Gordiaei (that which surmounteth the rest) Epiphanius [unspec 30] cals Lubar, which in the Armenian signifieth a place of descent: but this out of Iose∣phus;* 1.5 which name (saith Iunius) was of the euent, because of Noahs comming downe with his children. But this also I take to bee a supposed euent; seeing any hill, from whence on euery side we must descend, may thus bee called: as Iunius corrects the place in Iosephus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (Kubaris.) That the place is thus to be read, he coniectureth, because Iosep. l. 1. c. 4. sayes, the place is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 (as it were the descent or com∣ming downe) and Epiphan. l. 1. cont. Haeres. cals it 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉: which word in the Armenian and Aegyptian tongue signifieth descent, of Lubar, which is to descend; whence also Lubra is a Synagogue, because it was commonly built on some high place: whereof al∣so the Latine Delubrum may seeme to be deriued; and Act. 6. 9. they that belonged to [unspec 40] the Synagogue of the Aegyptians are called Libertini, for Lubratenu. Yet this opinion hath beene embraced from age to age: receiuing a habit of strength by time, and al∣lowance without any farther examination; although the name of Lubar might other∣wise rightly be giuen, especially to that mountaine, by reason that the passage was more faire, vp and downe vnto it, then to any of the rest adioyning.
Gene. 8. 4.
〈◊〉〈◊〉 7. §. 1.
Hierem. 51. 27.
Naet. hist. l. 5. c. 12
Ioseph. de Antiq. l. 1. c. 4.