The Jews in China - Their Synagogue Their Scriptures Their History etc by James Finn (1853).pdf

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CHINA;
T H E I R SYNAGOGUE, T H E I R
THEIR
HISTORY,
SCRIPTURES,
&c.
BY J A M E S FINN,
AUTHOR OF " SEPHARDIM ; "
OR, HISTORY OF T H E J E W S IN SPAIN AND
PORTUGAL.
" T h e y built a synagogue, and in it laid u p sacred books which concern
not only themselves but all men ; kings and subjects, parents and children,
the old a n d t h e young."—INSCRIPTION
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little •work may serve to call attention to
a very peculiar branch of the children of Israel,
to whom but an occasional allusion, almost
without־ remark, has hitherto been made in this
country.
THIS
Rather more has been done on the Continent,
and some learned foreigners have written dis-
quisitions upon various points of the subject;
yet all have been too much contented to give
the bare statements of the missionaries, with
their mistakes and inconsequences ; not always
citing even these with precision, and therefore
differing somewhat from each other.
The
present digest is by no means a mere transla-
tion.
For the sake of a uniform orthography in
European letters, the Chinese names and terms
here cited are reguLted by Dr. Morrison s
Dictionary, and his " View of China for Philo-
logical Purposes," the vowels having their
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PREFACE.
English sound. T h e difference of spelling the
same words in the various books referred to, is
often sufficiently amusing.
We are indebted for our present knowledge
of the Chinese Jews to the Jesuit missionaries
in that country. Let us hope to receive new
information concerning them from future mis-
sionaries, who shall preach only according to the
written word of God, who shall be free from
the least taint of idolatry ; men animated with
zeal for the salvation of mankind, and at the
same time rendering obedience to ecclesiastical
discipline.
T h e new position of England, arising from
the Treaty of Nan-king, 29th August, 1842,
ought to encourage many such men to proclaim
Christianity in that Empire.
Facilities of
various kinds for such a work are now before
us. T h e Jews there will be unimpeachable
witnesses to the truth of the Old Testament,—
the New Testament and our scriptural Liturgy
are already rendered into Chinese by English
predecessors in the field,—and we may rest
assured that the Divine blessing will not be
wanting to sanction every effort made in pro-
moting the spiritual good of China.
LIST OF BOOKS
R E F E R R I N G TO T H E JEWS IN CHINA.
1. Trigaltius, de Christiariâ Expeditione apud
Sinas. Aug. Vind. 1615, p. 118.
2. Imperio de la China, i cultura evangelica en
él. Por el P. Alvaro Semmedo. Madrid, 1642,
p. 196.
3. Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, Recueil vii.
Paris, 1707• Lettre Ire.
4. Dahalde, Description de la Chine. Fol.,
Paris, 1735, tom. iii. p. 64.
5. Deguignes, Histoire générale des Huns, &c.
Paris, 1756, p. 26.
6. Brotier, Tacitus, Paris, 1771, tom. iii. p. 567•
The dissertation on this subject is omitted in the
later editions.
7. Kennicott, Dissertatio generalis in Biblia
Hebraica. Fol., Oxon., 1776, p. 65.
8. Michaelis, Orientalische Bibliothek. Th. v.
p. 70; Th. ix. p. 40; Th. xv. p. 15.
9. Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, Recueil xxxi.
10. Eichhorn, Einleitung in das alte Testament.
Leipzig, 1781. Th. ii. p. 131.
11. Murr (Chr. Theoph. de) Diarii litterarii.
Hate, 1797. Th. ix. p. 81.

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