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Instead of the Thorn fhall come up the FirTree, and instead of the Brier, fhall come up the Myrtle-tree, and it shall be to Jehovah for a Name, for an everlasting Sign, that shall not be cut off. Ibid. xli. 19. will plant in the Wilderness, the Cedar, the Shittab-tree, and the Myrtle, and the Oiltree: I will fet in the Defart, the Fir-tree, and the Pine, and the Box, together, &c. "To bind clofe, or ftrait, to haften. S. the Same. C. Chald. to leap, and dance, leap or jump up, to dance backward and forward, or with repitition." The Jews are for making this the Myrtle, and the denfe or complicated Wood the fame; and fo taking away the Oak, which is not now for their Purpose. I have fhewed in the fecond Part of Mofes's Principia, p. 195. that the Palm-tree reprefents the Supporter or Suftainer. It was an Emblem in the Temple; the Branches of it were carried before Chrift, &c. And if may be an Epithet of the Oak, that, as you will fee, is the Representative of the Perfon who is bound by Oath to redeem Man, and for that, was from the eldest Accounts, facred to Partriarchs, Jews, and Heathens, and has been, or is fo, in each Nation. And if the Feaft was upon this R 4 Account

Account, they had great Caufe, when so covered, to draw and pour out Water, to fhew their Joy, by all emblematical Acts outwardly; nay, as we fay, to be glad at the Heart.

There is another Precept to take a Species of Fruit, and of three Trees, Parts different from the laft, and to another use in the fame Feast. Lev. xxiii. 40. And ye fhall take you on the firft Day, Fruit or Boughs of the Tree (in our Translation, Goodly; by the interlineary, Glory,) Ban no Branches of Palm-trees and

The Bough of the complicated ענף עץ עבת

Tree, (in our Tranflation the Boughs of thick Trees) and by Willows of the Brook. Each held a Bundle composed of one of each of these three forts of Boughs in his right Hand, and the Fruit or Apple in his left Hand, each by the Stalks; fo poffeffed of the Benefits of the Effects of thefe Powers, by having the Emblems in their Hands: And fome large Boughs of the Willow were placed upon the Altar. This Service was after in the Temple or Synągogue; in finging their Hymns, at the Word Hallelujah, or praise jah, that is, as you will fee, (Irradiation to the Esfence) and fome other Words, each put forth his Hands, and shaked the Bundle,

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and Apple, three Times, and withdrew his Hands, once towards each Quarter of the World, once upward, and once downward. It is evident, in this Service of at tributing Powers, it was determined from the Mouth or Heart, whether it was to God, or the Heavens; because, befides what I have faid about the Boughs of Trees over the Booths, this of Boughs in their Hands, and fhaking them, and on their Altars, &c. was as ancient among the Heathens, as we have any Evidence. The Jews have been very fhy, and will not let us know any thing about the Meaning of thefe; fome of them allow this Apple to be of that Species which Eve and Adam eat; but here the Tree is called by a high Attribute, Glory, frequently applied to God, and never but once, where any Idea is convey'd, that is, Ifa. xlv. 2. to Ways, and rendered crooked. Whether this be to this fide, and that fide horizontally, or up and down, is much the fame. C. Chald.-D. P. "Round, as it were bent into and returning to itself, twining, crooked.. Rab. 1 Way-faring Perfons Travelling up and down, going and coming here and there, Strollers. -Maimon. Gr. üdwe Udour, Water. Syr. Splendour, Glory, Light." If it be fo, it is applicable

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to nothing but Things which circulate, as to Air, to Fire, to Water, or, &c. If the

be a Prefix; and the Root be 77 or 117 Pile, &c. applied to on the Fire at the Orb of the Sun, cited in the second Part of Mofes's Principia, p. 387. fo 717"A Circle, a Crown. Arab. to roll, roll round, have Rotation - Rotation, going about, Circumgyration." So in fpeaking of Chamah, the Flame, the Sphere, the Crown, the Place of Circulation and Irradiation about the Orb of the Sun, which was made to rule. Ifa. xxx. 33. For Tophet is ordained of old, yeah for the King, or for the Rule it is prepared, he bath made it deep and large:

the Pile thereof Fire and much Wood: The Breath of Jehovah like a Stream of Brimftonne, dath kindle it or is burning in it. Some great Men, Dan. iii. 2, 3. were called Tophets; we have made them Sheriffs, and yet the Text put them before Rulers of Provinces, And the Tranflators have made Job, who compares himfelf, in the height of his Glory, to the glorious aud beneficent Faces of the Fire at the Orb of the Sun, fay Chap. xvii. 6.

I was the Solar Fire (To ותפתא היה לפנים

phet) beretofore. Our English Tranflators were

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afhamed of it, and have put (before time I was as a Tabret.) An Imitation. C Chald." The Name of a Precious Stone ufed in the Royal Pavement. Efth i. 6. (Heb. 7) the Palace 7 fo called becaufe of Rows, Rows, namely, be¡caufe many Orders or Rows of precious Stones were placed Circlewife in it. If any one bring this Stone into middle of a Dinning-Room it gives a Light to the Guefts as bright as Noon-day, Glofs." Whether you take with the or without, it is ftill the fame; and the Tree was an Emblem of Air in Fire or Circulation, which did them Good in every corporeal Sense; and they by tasting it, made it do them Evil, or become Evil. If fo, the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil was an Emblem of the Irradiation of the Sun or Heavens; to know it for its proper Ufes, was good: it is an Emblem of all Good; and Knowledge refers to the Ideas thofe Names convey of the Perfons in the facred Trinity, and their refpective Actions, of which under the Word D'; 'to know it for Worship, was Evil. So the Tree of Lives was an emblematical Sacrament of the Irradiation of the Effence which could give a Life of Duration, and a Life of Happiness. In this Cafe, where

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