SPAIN. All the World knows this Part of Europe, which is surrounded by the Sea; by the Ocean towards the West and North, by the Mediterranean towards the South and East, and by France towards the East and North. The Hebrews call Spain by Obad. 20. Bochart. Phaleg. l. 3. c. 7.the Name of Sepharad. Eusebius, and after him Bochart, think that Tharsis is the Father of the Spaniards. St. Paul Rom. xv. 24, 28.tells the Romans, that he hopes to see them as he goes to Spain: But it is doubted whether he was ever there or no. See the Commentators upon Rom. xv. 24. Several Fathers1 have positively affirm’d it; but others speak of it with more Diffidence. Baronius and Pererius are for the Affirmative, Scotus and Thomas for the Negative. See Mr. de Tillemont, Note 73 upon Saint Paul.
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Epiphan. hæres. 27. Chrysost. Præfat. in Ep. ad Heb. Hieron. in Isai. xi. Theodoret. in 2 Timoth. iv. & in Philip. i. 26. Gregor. in Job. l. 31. c. 22. ↩