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all was peace; it was therefore termed, the golden age→→ that all men used one speech-the wife of Saturn was called Rhea, or earth. Noah was called, a man of the earth, or a husbandman-Saturn is said to be a planter of vines, as Noah planted a vineyard-It is recorded of Saturn, that he drank the juice of the grapes, and was drunken-that he was the author of a law, which forbade the gods to behold the nakedness of men, alluding to the crime of Ham.-Saturn is said to have arisen with his wife and children, from the sea-like Noah after the deluge-A ship was one of the symbols of Saturn, in which he sailed about the world-Saturn, like Noah, foretold Deucalion's flood-Saturn, is said to have devoured his own children, except three, Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto: which alludes to Noah, and his three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japhet-Saturn, and his three sons divided the world, the same is said of Noah.

Janus, as well as Saturn, in the mythology, without doubt, refers to Noah. The Latins appear to have derived it from ¡ Jain, 'wine,' adding the masculine termination, us, which makes Jainus, or Janus, a door, or entrance; a name very proper for Noah, who, on his entrance into the new world when he descended from the ark, was the first who planted the vine.

It must necessarily be allowed, that Neptune was Japhet, the son of Noah. Bochart derives the name of Neptune, from Niphtha, which belongs to Niphal, or the passive conjugation of n Patha, to enlarge:" Hence it is said of Japhet, Gen ix. 27. "God shall enlarge Japhet."

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Neptune, was called by the ancient Greeks, Пocedav which has a similar meaning, with Japhet. Herodotus says, that the Пoceday was used by the Lybians, who worshipped this idol. This word is verbatim, the same

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as the Phoenician Pesitan, from the root by Pesit, to rush from concealment,' as Japhet from the ark, to spread abroad, to expand :' from which it appears, that the Hebrew, Phoenician, and Greek have the same application, and mean Neptune or Japhet. Bochart says,* Japhet, passed for Neptune, the god of the sea, because his portion was in the Islands and Peninsulas. So Lactantius,† All the maritime places, with the Islands, belonged to Neptune.

The Phoenicians and the Greeks style Jupiter Zevs Zeus. This word is derived from Ham, which in both Hebrew, Phoenician and Greek, means ' heat.' The Egyptians soon after the flood, called Ham the father of Egypt, which appears perfectly true, for Egypt is called in scripture, both by the name of Mitzraim, the son of Ham, and of Ham also. Psalm cv. 23—27. " Israel also came into Egypt, and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.' 99 Ham was written by the Greeks "Aμμa Ammon. Hence he was called Jupiter Ammon.

Sanchoniathon, and Philo-Biblius call Jupiter Tsedek, which is literally taken from the Hebrew word for Just. Jupiter is also called, Taranis, which means, ' to thunder;' from the Phoenician word y tarem, and the Hebrew rangmah, thunder.'

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Jupiter is evidently derived from Jah, so called by the Greeks, Ja, and warnp, father, i. e. Ja, or Jehovah father. The circumstances, and acts attributed to Jupiter are evidently taken from the scripture. Jupiter is said in the mythology to have rebelled against his father, Saturn, as Ham rebelled against Noah.

*Phaleg. 1. 1. C. 2.

+ De falsa Relig. 1. 1. C. 11
Vossius de Idolat. 1. 1. C. 27.

Juno, in the mythology, is fabled to be the wife of Jupiter. It is proper to remark, that, among the heathen nations, the sun and the moon were their primary idols, and in reference to these two idols, the prophet says, "Bel boweth down, Nebo stoopeth." Isaiah xlvi. 1.-Bel signifies the sun, from the Hebrew El, ' God,' the sun being the supreme object in all nature, and the soul of animal life. Hence, also, the Greek 'HA, or jalos the sun; and, as the Babylonians applied this word, El, or Bel, to the sun, so they applied moon, as the word in connexion with for Nebo means, to increase, and in connexion with the sun, means, the moon when increasing in light thus it appears, that we have a true understanding of this passage of scripture.

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Apollo was also one of the appellatives of Joshua. Aroλλv Apollon, means to destroy,' so Joshua was a destroyer, commanded to destroy the idolatrous worship of the Canaanites-Joshua, in Hebrew, means a saviour, thus by destroying the idolatry of the Canaanites, he was appointed to be the saviour of the Hebrews.

The name of Apollo has never been carried further back than the time of the ancient Greeks, before the time of Homer, but it is evidently derived from the Hebrew Hapolaah, 'to separate, divide.' The vulgate renders Exod. ii. 7. quanto miraculo dividet, to divide miraculously; to separate between the good and evil10 pronounce judgment—to intercede between the judge and the criminal-A wonderful separation, exceeding experience, power or expectation.* Gen. xviii. 14. 2 Chron. xxvi. 15. All which most eminently applies to Noah,

* Vide Parkhurst, 1. 1.

who was appointed to pronounce judgment, to intercedeand finally, to separate, until judgment was executed.

History and tradition had handed down to the ancient Greeks, all the circumstances of the flood, and the destruction of the old world, by this, miraculous judgment, from which word they framed the word 'Añoλλv Apollon, to destroy.' This also gave rise to the Delphic Oracle for as Noah had been a wonderful oracle to the Antediluvians; so the ancient Greeks built a magnificent temple, at Delphos, and erected a statue, to perpetuate that awful miracle, and the man who had been obedient to the divine command. In the hand of the statue, they put a golden bow, mentioned by the Greek poets,

"He from his golden bow."

Which was taken from scripture, in the narrative after the flood, viz: "I do set my bow in the cloud."

Diodorus, speaking of Apollo, says, that by the wars of the gods, the giants became extinct. Nothing can more accurately point out the period of the deluge. In Gen. vi. 4. it is said, "There were giants in the earth in those days:" and by the judgment of God, the whole race was swept from the face of the earth, except Noah, and his family, the giants, or great men, together with all of inferior degree, appear to have been swallowed in the universal ruin.

Apollo is rendered famous by Homer, for destroying Typhon; Python and Typhon are only dialectic variations, they mean the same man, viz. Og, the king of Bashan, as follows under Hercules.

Bacchus, from the place where he obtained a knowl edge of all the learning of the east, was called Diony

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sius; i. e. Dio and Nisi. Plutarch mentions the flight Alovorov of Dio-nysius. Homer speaks of the city Nisa, sacred to Bacchus. Nisi was a city close to a mountain in Arabia, near Egypt, where Moses was received when he fled from the face of Pharaoh. At Nisi, he resided forty years, and was instructed in mount Sinai respecting the rites and ceremonies of the worship of God. For this reason, it was, that he erected an altar there, which he called Jehovah Nisi. Exod. xvii. 15. The same is said of Bacchus, by Ovid. "Bacchus was instructed in the highest wisdom in a mount of Arabia, called Nisi." Diodorus Siculus informs us, that the ancient Brachmans acknowledged the whole system of their civil and religious policy, to have been derived from Dionysius; that in consequence of their veneration for that personage, who introduced the knowledge of religion and literature into India, divine rites were instituted in honor of him.*

It is proper to remark, that Nisi, and Sinai, have a similar signification. Sini, in Hebrew, by putting the N. before the S. is Nisi; and as Sini, has the same meaning, as we to hurt, or wound, which is derived from it; and as Nisi, means a refuge, a banner; so Moses, by a change of the letter, called the altar Nisi, and yet preserved the meaning of the root Sini, saying, in effect, Jehovah, who is my defence, will wound all who shall sacrilegiously ascend his holy mountain. Exod.

xix. 21.

Bacchus is said in the mythology, to have been born in Egypt; put in an ark and exposed to the waters; the same is recorded concerning Moses. Bacchus had two mothers, so had Moses, his own mother, and the daughter of Pharaoh.-The flight of Bacchus was toward the Red

*Ind. Antiq,

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