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ii. THE UNANIMOUS DECLARATION OF THE THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN ORTHODOX FATHERS And they answered and said unto him, " Yea, verily the Tabernacle of the Covenant was the first thing to be created by Him, and there is no lie in thy word it ; is true, and correct, and righteous, and unalterable. He created Zion before everything else to be the habitation of His glory, and the plan of His Covenant was that which He said, ' I will put on the flesh of Adam, which is of the dust, and I will appear unto all those whom I have created with voice.' And hand and with if it had been that the Zion had not come heavenly down, and if He had not put on the flesh of Adam, then God the Word would not have appeared, and our salvation would not have taken place. The testimony (or proof) is in the similitude ; the heavenly Zion is to be regarded as the similitude of the Mother of the Redeemer, MARY. For in the Zion which is builded there are deposited the Ten Words of the Law which were written by His hands, and He Himself, the Creator, dwelt in the womb of MARY, and through Him everything came into being." My My CONCERNING CANAAN l Now, it was Canaan who rent the kingdom from the 12. children of Shem, and he transgressed the oath which Noah had made them to swear. And the sons of Canaan were seven mighty men, and he took seven mighty cities from the land of Shem, and set his sons over them ; and likewise he also made his own portion double. And in later days God took vengeance upon the sons of Canaan, and made the sons of Shem to inherit their country. These are the nations whom the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the they inherited the Hittites, the Amorites, the Jebusites, and Hivites, his father : 1 8 The son of Ham (Genesis x, 6).