Kittim

1 Mac. i. 1 Mac. viii. 5. Dan. xi. 30.KITTIM, the Son of Javan, and Grandson to Noah. We have shewn in the Comment upon Genesis x. 4. that Kittim peopled Macedonia. Josephus by Kittim understands the Isle of Cyprus; others the Isle of Chios; others Cilicia; others again Achaia. But the Author of the first Book of Maccabees understands it as we do, of the Macedonians; for he calls Alexander King of the Kittims, and says, that Perseus King of the Kittims was overcome by the Romans. Daniel speaks of the Ships of the Kittims, which Bochart takes to be meant of the Roman Fleet. He will have it, that Kittim signifies Italy. It is true Daniel speaks in this Place of the Roman Fleet, but he calls it the Fleet of the Kittims, because it lay in the Harbours of Macedonia, when it departed to attack Antiochus, under the Conduct of Caïus Popilius; and of this Event Daniel was speaking in the Passage cited by Bochart. Thus the Fleet of the Kittims and Macedonia is in this Circumstance the Roman Fleet also.

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