Note 3 — INTRODUCTION BY A. H. KEANE, LL.D.
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On this crucial point I am glad to find myself in accord with Dr. A. H. Sayce, who has independently arrived at the same conclusion. “There is no gold in Southern Arabia,” he writes, “and consequently Ophir must have been an emporium to which the gold was brought for transhipment from elsewhere” The Early History of the Hebrews, 1897, p. 463).