III. CUSH, Josephus says,1 that the Ethiopians call themselves by this name, and that the same is given them by all Asia. S. Jerom2 tells us likewise, that the Hebrews call the Ethiopians by the same name, and the Septuagint give them no Jer. xiii. 23. Ezek. xxix. 10: Isai. xi. 11.other. Jeremiah says, Can the Cushæan, or Ethiopian change his skin, then may ye also do good. In Ezekiel, the Lord threatens to reduce Egypt to a desart, from the Tower of Syene, even unto the Border of Cush, or Ethiopia, and in Isaiah, he says, He will recover the remnant of his People, which shall be left from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros and from Cush. All these marks agree with Ethiopia, properly so called, which lies to the South of Egypt.
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