ANCIENT EGYPT THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD
NOTES TO BOOK 8
[1] [Ez.
31:15-8. 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the grave I
caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained the floods
thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused Lebanon to mourn for
him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.
I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall, when I cast him down to
hell with them that descend into the pit: and all the trees of Eden, the choice
and best of Lebanon, all that drink water, shall be comforted in the nether
parts of the earth.
They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword;
and they that were his arm, that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the
heathen.
To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden?
yet shalt thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of
the earth: thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be
slain by the sword. This is Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord GOD.']
[2] [Ps. 16:9-11. 'Therefore my heart is glad, and
my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.']
[3] [Ps. 17:15. 'As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.']
[4] [Ps. 22:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?']
[5] [Ps. 69:2-15. 'I sink in
deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters, where the
floods overflow me.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my
God.
They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they
that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I
restored that which I took not away.
O God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee.
Let not them that wait on thee, O Lord GOD of hosts, be ashamed for my sake: let
not those that seek thee be confounded for my sake, O God of Israel.
Because for thy sake I have borne reproach; shame hath covered my face.
I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children.
For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that
reproached thee are fallen upon me.
When I wept, and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach.
I made sackcloth also my garment; and I became a proverb to them.
They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I was the song of the drunkards.
But as for me, my prayer is unto thee, O LORD, in an acceptable time: O God, in
the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation.
Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them
that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Let not the waterflood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let
not the pit shut her mouth upon me.']
[6] [Psalms 42 to 49 and 84 to 88.]
[7] [Psalms 82-88, etc.]
[8] [Ps. 49:15. 'But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave: for he shall receive me. Selah.']
[10] [Ps. 30:7. 'LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide thy face, and I was troubled.']
[12] [Ps. 71:20. 'Thou, which hast showed me great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth.']
[13] [Ps. 130:1. 'A Song of degrees. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O LORD.']
[16] [Ps. 120:5. 'Woe is me, that I sojourn in Mesech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar!']
[19] [Ps. 122:3. 'Jerusalem is builded as a city that is compact together: Whither the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name of the LORD.']
[20] [Rev. 20:4. 'And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.']
[21] [Ps. 132:13-14. 'For the
LORD hath chosen Zion; he hath desired it for his habitation.
This is my rest for ever: here will I dwell; for I have desired it.']
[22] [Ps.134:1. 'Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants of the LORD, which by night stand in the house of the LORD.']
[23] [Source.]
[24] [Book of the Dead, notes to ch. 39.]
[25] [Les Inscriptions des Pyramides de Saqqarah, line 72.]
[27] [Hos. 2:15. 'And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.']
[28] [2 Es. 7:26-37. 'Therefore, Ezra, emptiness for the empty, fullness for the full! 'Listen! The time shall come when the signs I have foretold will be seen; the city which is now invisible shall appear and the country now concealed be made visible. Everyone who has been delivered from the evils I have foretold shall see for himself my marvellous acts. My son the Messiah shall appear with his companions and bring four hundred years of happiness to all who survive. At the end of that time, my son the Messiah shall die, and so shall all mankind who draw breath. Then the world shall return to its original silence for seven days as at the beginning of creation, and no one shall be left alive. After seven days the age which is not yet awake shall be roused and the age which is corruptible shall die. The earth shall give up those who sleep in it, and the dust those who rest there in silence; and the storehouses shall give back the souls entrusted to them. Then the Most High shall be seen on the judgement-seat, and there shall be an end of all pity and patience. Judgement alone shall remain; truth shall stand firm and faithfulness be strong; requitals shall at once begin and open payment be made; good deeds shall awake and wicked deeds shall not be allowed to sleep. Then the place of torment shall appear and over against it the place of rest; the furnace of hell shall be displayed, and on the opposite side the paradise of delight.' NEB version.]
[29] [Hos. 2:14-15. 'Therefore,
behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak
comfortably unto her.
And I will give her her vineyards from thence, and the valley of Achor for a
door of hope: and she shall sing there, as in the days of her youth, and as in
the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt.']
[30] [Is. 65:9-12. 'And I will
bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains:
and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the
herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that
prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that
number.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the
slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not
hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not.']
[31] [Joel 3:14. 'Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.']
[32] [As the god in lion form—Rit. ch. 54, 1.]
[33]
[Joel 3:15-18. 'The sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the
stars shall withdraw their shining.
The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and
the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his
people, and the strength of the children of Israel.
So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain:
then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any
more.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new
wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow
with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD, and shall
water the valley of Shittim.']
[34] [Ps. 11:1-2. 'To the chief Musician, A Psalm
of David. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to
your mountain?
For, lo, the wicked bend their bow, they make ready their arrow upon the string,
that they may privily shoot at the upright in heart.']
[35] [Ps. 11:4. 'The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD'S throne is in heaven: his eyes behold, his eyelids try, the children of men.']
[36] [Is. 18:5. 'For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.']
[38] [Naville, 'The Litany of Ra,' RP, 8, 103. See p. 123.]
[39] [Ps. 15:1. 'A Psalm of David. LORD, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?']
[40] [Ps. 27:5. 'For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.']
[41] [Ps. 76:2. 'In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.']
[42] [Ps. 27:5. 'For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.']
[43] [Ps.
27:5-6. 'For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the
secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me:
therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I
will sing praises unto the LORD.']
[44] [Ps. 26:6. 'I will wash mine hands in innocency: so will I compass thine altar, O LORD.']
[45] [Ps.
82:8. 'Arise, O God, judge the earth: for thou shalt inherit all nations.'
Ps. 83:1. 'A Song or Psalm of Asaph.
Keep not thou silence, O God: hold not thy peace, and be not still, O God.']
[46] [Ps. 7:6. 'Arise, O LORD, in thine anger, lift up thyself because of the rage of mine enemies: and awake for me to the judgment that thou hast commanded.']
[47] [Ps.
44:23-26. 'Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our
oppression?
For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.']
[48] [Ps. 78:65. 'Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep, and like a mighty man that shouteth by reason of wine.']
[49] [Ps.
17:8-15. 'Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy
wings,
From the wicked that oppress me, from my deadly enemies, who compass me about.
They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to
the earth;
Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking
in secret places.
Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked,
which is thy sword:
From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their
portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure: they
are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I
awake, with thy likeness.']
[50] [Ps. 17:13. 'Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, which is thy sword.']
[51] [Ps. 27:2. 'When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.']
[52] [Ps. 9:17. 'The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.']
[53] [Ps. 2:3. 'Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.']
[54] [Ps. 129:4. 'The LORD is righteous: he hath cut asunder the cords of the wicked.']
[55] [Ps.
3:4-5. 'I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy
hill. Selah.
I laid me down and slept; I awaked; for the LORD sustained me.']
[56] [Ps. 142:1. 'Maschil of David; A Prayer when he was in the cave. I cried unto the LORD with my voice; with my voice unto the LORD did I make my supplication.']
[57] [Ps. 142:5. 'I cried unto thee, O LORD: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.']
[58] [Ps. 142:6. 'Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.']
[59] [Ps. 142:7. 'Bring my soul out of prison, that I may praise thy name: the righteous shall compass me about; for thou shalt deal bountifully with me.']
[60] [Lefebure, 'Book of Hades,' RP, 10, 79. See p. 100, 4th division, tablets 2, 7, and 8.]
[63] [Is. 42:7. 'To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.']
[67] [See also Massey's lecture on the Seven Souls.]
[68] [Ps. 16:8-11. 'I have set the LORD always
before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in
hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.']
[70] [Ps. 30:3-12. 'O LORD,
thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I
should not go down to the pit.
Sing unto the LORD, O ye saints of his, and give thanks at the remembrance of
his holiness.
For his anger endureth but a moment; in his favour is life: weeping may endure
for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
LORD, by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong: thou didst hide
thy face, and I was troubled.
I cried to thee, O LORD; and unto the LORD I made supplication.
What profit is there in my blood, when I go down to the pit? Shall the dust
praise thee? shall it declare thy truth?
Hear, O LORD, and have mercy upon me: LORD, be thou my helper.
Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my
sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my
God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.']
[71] [Ps. 57:8. 'Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.']
[72] [Ps. 107:1. 'O give thanks unto the LORD, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.']
[74] [Is. 30:33. 'For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.']
[75] [1 Sam. 28:13. 'And the king said unto her, Be not afraid: for what sawest thou? And the woman said unto Saul, I saw gods ascending out of the earth.']
[90] [Ps.
22:12-21. 'Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me
round.
They gaped upon me with their mouths, as a ravening and a roaring lion.
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like
wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and
thou hast brought me into the dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they
pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.
But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me.
Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.
Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the
unicorns.']
[91] [Ps. 44:19. 'Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.']
[92] [Ps. 57:4. 'My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.']
[93] [Ps. 74:19. 'O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.']
[94] [Not in Birch or Renouf.]
[95] [Ps. 22:20. 'Deliver my soul from the sword; my darling from the power of the dog.']
[97] [Ps. 22:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?']
[98] [Ps. 22:7-8. 'All they that see me laugh me
to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,
He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he
delighted in him.']
[99] [Ps. 22:15-18. 'My strength is dried up like
a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the
dust of death.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me: they
pierced my hands and my feet.
I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.']
[100] [Ps. 41:9. 'Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.']
[101] [Ps. 69:20. 'Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none.']
[102] [Ps. 69:21. 'They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.']
[103] [Ps. 78:2. 'I will open my mouth in a
parable: I will utter dark sayings of old:
Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.']
[106] [Ps. 16:9-11. 'Therefore my heart is glad,
and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One
to see corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.']
[107] [Ps. 17:15. 'As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.']
[108] [Ps. 74:19-20. 'O
deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget
not the congregation of thy poor for ever.
Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the
habitations of cruelty.']
[109] [Source.]
[110] [Ps. 57:6. 'They have prepared a net for my steps; my soul is bowed down: they have digged a pit before me, into the midst whereof they are fallen themselves. Selah.']
[111] [Ps. 31:4. 'Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.']
[112] [Ps. 5:8. 'Lead me, O LORD, in thy righteousness because of mine enemies; make thy way straight before my face.']
[113] [Ps. 69:1. 'To the chief Musician upon Shoshannim, A Psalm of David. Save me, O God; for the waters are come in unto my soul.']
[114] [Ps. 69:14. 'Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.']
[115] [Ps. 29:10. 'The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.']
[116] [Ps. 24:2. 'For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.']
[117] [Ps. 29:3. 'The voice of the LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.']
[118] [Rev. 22:1. 'And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.']
[119] [Jer. 17:13. 'O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake thee shall be ashamed, and they that depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken the LORD, the fountain of living waters.']
[120] [Ps.
29:10-l1. 'The LORD sitteth upon the flood; yea, the LORD sitteth King for ever.
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with
peace.']
[121] [Matt.
5:34-35. 'But I say unto you, Swear not at all; neither by heaven; for it is
God's throne:
Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the
city of the great King.']
[124] [Ps. 30:1. 'A Psalm and Song at the dedication of the house of David. I will extol thee, O LORD; for thou hast lifted me up, and hast not made my foes to rejoice over me.']
[125] [Ps. 30:11-12. 'Thou
hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and
girded me with gladness;
To the end that my glory may sing praise to thee, and not be silent. O LORD my
God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.']
[126] [Not in Birch, Budge or Renouf.]
[127] [Not in Birch, Budge or Renouf.]
[128] [Ps. 4:1. 'To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.']
[129] [Ps. 7:8. 'The LORD shall judge the people: judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.']
[130] [Ps. 17:15. 'As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.']
[131] [Ps. 18:20. 'The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath he recompensed me.']
[132] [Ps. 18:24. 'Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight.']
[136] [Ps. 7:11. 'God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.']
[137] [Ps. 97:2. 'Clouds and
darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of
his throne.'
Ps. 98:2. 'The LORD hath made known his salvation: his righteousness hath
he openly showed in the sight of the heathen.']
[138] [Ps. 9:4. 'For thou hast maintained my right and my cause; thou satest in the throne judging right.']
[139] [Ps.
9:7-8. 'But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for
judgment.
And he shall judge the world in righteousness, he shall minister judgment to the
people in uprightness.']
[140] [Ps.
41:9-11. 'Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my
bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.
But thou, O LORD, be merciful unto me, and raise me up, that I may requite them.
By this I know that thou favourest me, because mine enemy doth not triumph over
me.']
[141] [Ps. 55:13-14. 'But it was thou, a man mine
equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance.
We took sweet counsel together, and walked unto the house of God in company.']
[142] [Ps. 55:20-21. 'He hath
put forth his hands against such as be at peace with him: he hath broken his
covenant.
The words of his mouth were smoother than butter, but war was in his heart: his
words were softer than oil, yet were they drawn swords.']
[144] [Ps. 75:2-3. 'When I shall receive the
congregation I will judge uprightly.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars
of it. Selah.']
[145] [Ps. 74. See note below.]
[146] [Ps. 74:13-14. 'Thou didst divide the sea
by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.
Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the
people inhabiting the wilderness.']
[147] [Who is the King of Glory was also used as a title for a work by Alvin Boyd Kuhn, a follower of Massey. See my essay.]
[150] [Ps. 23:1. 'A Psalm of David. The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want.']
[161] [Not in Birch, Budge or Renouf.]
[162] [Ps.
16:10-11. 'For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer
thine Holy One to see corruption.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy
right hand there are pleasures for evermore.']
[163] [Ps. 60:5. 'That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.']
[164] ['Hymn to Osiris.' There are two versions of this hymn; that by Chabas (RP, 4, 97) and Mallet (RPNS, 4, 14), the latter being much the closer rendering. (Massey's words.)]
[165] [Is. 34:16. 'Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.']
[166] [Is. 35:1. 'The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.']
[167] [Is. 35:2. 'It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.']
[168] [Is. 35:4. 'Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.']
[169] [Is. 66:1-2. 'Thus saith
the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the
house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith
the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a
contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.']
[170] [Job 40:13. 'Hide them in the dust together; and bind their faces in secret.']
[171] [Job 10:21. 'Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of death.']
[172] [Job 19:25-26. 'For I
know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the
earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see
God.'
Job 18:5. 'Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of
his fire shall not shine.']
[173] [Job 21:28. 'For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?']
[174] [Job 9:8. 'Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.']
[175] [Job 38:12. 'Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place.']
[176] [Job 1:6. 'Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them.']
[177] [Job 10:16. 'For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.']
[178] [Job 26:13. 'By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.']
[179] [Job 29:18. 'Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.']
[180] [Job 8:11. 'Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?']
[181] [Job 3:14. 'With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves.']
[182] [Job 41:1. 'Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?']
[183] [Job 10:21-22. 'Before I
go whence I shall not return, even to the land of darkness and the shadow of
death;
A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any
order, and where the light is as darkness.']
[185] [Job 49:9. See note below.]
[186] [Massey errs here; there is no 49th chapter in Job. The quote is from Ps. 49:9: 'He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.']
[188] [1 Peter 5:8. 'Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour.']
[190] [Job 24:18. 'He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.']
[192] [Not in Birch, Budge or Renouf.]
[193] [Job 19:22-26. 'Why do
ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?
Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a book!
That they were graven with an iron pen and lead in the rock for ever!
For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see
God.']
[195] [Job 19:25-27. 'For I
know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the
earth:
And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see
God:
Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though
my reins be consumed within me.']
[197] [Job 26:5-13. 'Dead things are formed from
under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon
nothing.
He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under
them.
He holdeth back the face of his throne, and spreadeth his cloud upon it.
He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an
end.
The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his reproof.
He divideth the sea with his power, and by his understanding he smiteth through
the proud.
By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked
serpent.']
[199] [Job 38:4-7.
'Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast
understanding.
Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the
line upon it?
Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the corner stone
thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?']
[201] [Job 38:12. 'Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused the dayspring to know his place.']
[202] [Job 27:1. 'Moreover Job continued his parable, and said ...']
[203] [Jon. 2:2-6. 'And said, I cried by reason
of mine affliction unto the LORD, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell
cried I, and thou heardest my voice.
For thou hadst cast me into the deep, in the midst of the seas; and the floods
compassed me about: all thy billows and thy waves passed over me.
Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy
temple.
The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round
about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about
me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.']
[204] [Jer. 15:9. 'She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the LORD.']
[205] [Jud. 2:11-14. 'And the
children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim:
And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the
land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were
round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to
anger.
And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth.
And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the
hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their
enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their
enemies.']
[206] [Jer. 3:14. 'Turn, O backsliding children, saith the LORD; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion.']
[207] [Hos. 2:16-17. 'And it
shall be at that day, saith the LORD, that thou shalt call me Ishi; and shalt
call me no more Baali.
For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no
more be remembered by their name.']
[208] [B'Jah is Jehovah, Is. 26:4 ('Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength'), and B'Jah is his name.]
[209] [1 Chron. 12:5. 'Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite.']
[210] [Lexicon.]
[211] [Bryant, in his A New System, or, An Analysis of Ancient Mythology, discusses the 'coming one' in a general sense.]
[212] [Ex. 15:2. 'The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.']
[213] [Ex. 17:16. 'For he said, Because the LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.']
[214] [Ps. 68:4. 'Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name JAH, and rejoice before him.']
[215] [Ps. 77:20. 'Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.']
[216] [Ps. 106:1-3. 'Praise
ye the LORD. O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: for his mercy endureth
for ever.
Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD? who can show forth all his praise?
Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all
times.']
[217] [Mead, Pistis Sophia.]
[220] [On the Mysteries, 8.3. 'According to
another order, however, he arranges the God Emeph prior to, and as the
leader of, the celestial gods. And he says that this God is an intellect, itself
intellectually perceiving itself, and converting intellections to itself. But
prior to this, he arranges the impartible one, which he says is the first
paradigm, and which he denominates Eicton.' Taylor's tr.
See also NG
1:2, NG 2:393.]
[221] [Is. 11:11-13. 'And it
shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the
second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from
Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and
from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts
of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of
the earth.
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut
off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.']
[222] [Cameron, 'Illustrations of Borneo of Passages in the Book of Genesis,' TSBA, 2. See full text.]
[223] [Pinches, 'Ya and Yawa (Jah and Jahweh) in Assyrio-Babylonian Inscriptions,' PSBA, 15, 15. 'The occurrence of the above-mentioned names adds one more testimony to the true pronunciation of יהוה and shows that, during the times of the Persian rulers of Babylon, the Jews had no objection to pronouncing the name which is now generally read as Jehovah.' ]
[224] [Halevy, 'Assyrian Fragments,' RP, 11, 157.]
[225] [Ibid., RP, 11, 157. See p. 161.]
[228] [Josephus and Philo.]
[229] [Ez. 47:13. 'Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.']
[230] [Gen. 46:20. 'And unto Joseph in the land of Egypt were born Manasseh and Ephraim, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto him.']
[232] [Rit. chs. 38, 41, 53, 54, 62.]
[233] [Is. 38:13. 'I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.']
[234] [Nah. 2:11-13. 'Where is
the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the
lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them
afraid?
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his
lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots
in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy
prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.']
[235] [Hos. 11:10. 'They shall walk after the LORD: he shall roar like a lion: when he shall roar, then the children shall tremble from the west.']
[236] [Jer. 25:30. 'Therefore prophesy thou against them all these words, and say unto them, The LORD shall roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he shall mightily roar upon his habitation; he shall give a shout, as they that tread the grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.']
[237] [Joel 3:16. 'The LORD also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the LORD will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel.']
[238] [Amos 3:8. 'The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord GOD hath spoken, who can but prophesy?']
[239] [Job 10:16. 'For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou showest thyself marvellous upon me.']
[241] [The Bacchantes.]
[242] [Hos. 5:14. 'For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion, and as a young lion to the house of Judah: I, even I, will tear and go away; I will take away, and none shall rescue him.']
[244] ['Concerning Egypt itself I
shall extend my remarks to a great length, because there is no country that
possesses so many wonders, nor any that has such a number of works which defy
description. Not only is the climate different from that of the rest of the
world, and the rivers unlike any other rivers, but the people also, in most of
their manners and customs, exactly reverse the common practice of mankind. The
women attend the markets and trade, while the men sit at home at the loom; and
here, while the rest of the world works the woof up the warp, the Egyptians work
it down; the women likewise carry burthens upon their shoulders, while the men
carry them upon their heads. They eat their food out of doors in the streets,
but retire for private purposes to their houses, giving as a reason that what is
unseemly, but necessary, ought to be done in secret, but what has nothing
unseemly about it, should be done openly. A woman cannot serve the priestly
office, if either for god or goddess, but men are priests to both; sons need not
support their parents unless they choose, but daughters must, whether they
choose or no.' Rawlinson on Herodotus, 2,
35. I give the passage as ref. by Massey, but I can find no ref. to a
'triple-headed lion-god at Meroe with four arms' mentioned by Rawlinson or
Herodotus. Nor does such a god seem to exist in Egypt.
See also NG 1:527.]
[245] [Ez. 19:1, 5. ' Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.']
[246] [Lefébure, Tombeau de Seti, I. 11, pl. 4, 5.]
[248] [Gen. 49:22. 'Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall.']
[249] [Num. 23:22. 'God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.']
[250] [The Religion of Israel to the Fall of the Jewish State, vol. 1, p. 235. 'Jahveh was worshipped in the shape of a young bull. It may not be doubted that the bull-worship was really the worship of Jahveh. The prophets refuse to acknowledge it as such, it is true, but this proves nothing more than that their invisible Jahveh abhorred such visible representations: the priests and worshippers of the golden bull believed that they were worshipping Jahveh himself. Jeroboam I., too, the founder of the temples at Dan and Beth-el, calls the image made by him, Thy (Israel's) god, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt; it has been possible to interpret the golden bull as the symbol of another deity, the narrator who tells us this detail would not have described it as a representation of Jahveh. It is another question whether we have a right to see in the golden bull an original, genuinely Israelitish symbol of Jahveh. It is usually considered to have been borrowed from Egypt. It is pointed out that Jeroboam had lived some time in that land before his elevation to the throne, and that the Israelites had just left Egypt, when they worshipped the golden bull in the desert. But although this coincidence makes some impression, there is so much counter-evidence that we must regard it as purely accidental. In the first place it is doubtful whether the bull-worship in the desert is historical; in the second place it is very strange that the deliverance of Israel out of Egypt should be ascribed to one of the Egyptian gods in the third place the bulls which were principally worshipped in Egypt were live bulls (Apis and Mnevis), which therefore we can by no means identify with the image of a bull adored by the Israelites.']
[251] [Kircher, Œdipus Ægyptiacus, vol. 1, p. 197.]
[252] [Hos. 10:5. 'The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calves of Bethaven: for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the priests thereof that rejoiced on it, for the glory thereof, because it is departed from it.']
[253] [Hos. 10:11. 'And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.']
[254] [Jer.
34:18-19. 'And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which
have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when
they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof.
The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs,
and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts
of the calf.']
[255] [Rit. ch. 40, vignette.]
[256] [Source.]
[257] [Panarion, poss. 3, 1, 74. 'Sanctus, sanctus, sanctus dominus Sabaoth.']
[258] [The Gnostics and their Remains, Ancient and Medieval, pub. 1887, the 2nd ed. 1st pub. 1861.]
[260] [Ibid., p. 441. 'The Ass-headed Typhon, or the Principle of Evil, with quadruple wings and one foot hoofed, carries by the tail two monstrous scorpions: over his head a scarabaeus flying. Of no esoteric meaning, bat simply an amulet against the bite of the reptile, made after the rule in such cases prescribed.']
[262] [Ibid., p. 230. 'In reality the
production of some devout, but illiterate Gnostic, it is construed by its
present owners into a shocking heathen blasphemy, and a jibe upon the good
Christian Alexamenos, because they mistake the jackal's head for that of an ass,
and consequently imagine an intentional caricature of their own Crucifix.
The discovery of this picture clearly illustrates a passage of Tertullian (Apol.
xvi.) where he says to his opponents: "Like many others you have dreamed that an
Ass's Head is our god. But a new version of our god has lately been made public
at Rome, ever since a certain hireling convict of a bullfighter put forth a
picture with some such inscription as this, the god of the Christians ONOKOIHTHZ.
He was depicted thus with the ears of an ass, and with one of his feet hoofed,
holding in his hand a book, and clothed in the toga."']
[263] [King, The Gnostics and their Remains, 2nd ed., pp. 229-30. 'This double character of Anubis is very curiously expressed by the figure upon a sard belonging to myself, which to the casual observer presents that most orthodox of types, the Good Shepherd, carrying a lamb upon his shoulders, leaning upon his staff, his loins bound with a girdle having long and waving ends. But upon closer examination this so innocent personage resolves himself into the double-headed god of Egypt, the lamb's head doing duty for the jackal's, springing from the same shoulders with that of the man, whilst the floating end of the girdle is turned into the bushy tail of the wolfish beast, and the "latrator Anubis" bursts upon our astonished eyes. This identification of character in Anubis and Christ enables us rightly to understand that drawing, the discovery of which created such a sensation at Rome a few years back, scratched (graffito) roughly on the plaster of a room in a house buried (in ancient times) under the extended buildings of the Palatine.']
[264] [Apologeticum, 16. See note 262 above.]
[265] [Diodorus, The Library, bk. 34.]
[266] [Ps. 81:5. 'This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.']
[267] [Ez. 8:10. 'So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed upon the wall round about.']
[268] [Num. 1:14. 'Of Gad;
Eliasaph the son of Deuel.'
Num. 3:24. 'And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites
shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.']
[269] [Josephus, Against Apion, bk. 1, ch. 32. 'And now I have done with Manetho, I will inquire into what Chaeremon says. For he also, when he pretended to write the Egyptian history, sets down the same name for this king that Manetho did, Amenophis, as also of his son Ramesses, and then goes on thus: "The goddess Isis appeared to Amenophis in his sleep, and blamed him that her temple had been demolished in the war. But that Phritiphantes, the sacred scribe, said to him, that in case he would purge Egypt of the men that had pollutions upon them, he should be no longer troubled with such frightful apparitions. That Amenophis accordingly chose out two hundred and fifty thousand of those that were thus diseased, and cast them out of the country: that Moses and Joseph were scribes, and Joseph was a sacred scribe; that their names were Egyptian originally; that of Moses had been Tisithen, and that of Joseph, Peteseph: that these two came to Pelusium, and lighted upon three hundred and eighty thousand that had been left there by Amenophis, he not being willing to carry them into Egypt; that these scribes made a league of friendship with them, and made with them an expedition against Egypt: that Amenophis could not sustain their attacks, but fled into Ethiopia, and left his wife with child behind him, who lay concealed in certain caverns, and there brought forth a son, whose name was Messene, and who, when he was grown up to man's estate, pursued the Jews into Syria, being about two hundred thousand, and then received his father Amenophis out of Ethiopia."' From Cory, Ancient Fragments, pp. 142-3.]
[270] [Ibid. See note above.]
[271] [Fragments of Chaeremon can be found in Against Apion. They have also been recently published by Brill, Leyden, 1984, under the editorship of Peter William van der Horst.]
[272] [I have elsewhere expressed some remarks on Chaeremon and his relevance to Egyptology. See my essay.]
[273] [See 'The Exodus' in Book 10.]
[274] [Renouf, HL, p. 141. 'One of the most recent of the Ptolemaic tablets records the fulfilment of a promise made in a dream by the god I-em-hotep to Pasherenptah with reference to the birth of a son, and it contains the invocation, "Oh, all ye gods and goddesses who are unnamed, let a child remain in my place for ever and ever .... keeping alive the name of my house."']
[275] [Published by Budge. Papyrus of Ani.]
[276] [Renouf, 'Tablet of the Seven Years of Famine,' PSBA, 13. See full text. Also, Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature, vol. 3, p. 94, who discusses this text and believes it to be poss. fraudulent, or fictitious. The seven year famine was a popular tradition.]
[277] [Gen. 41:54-57. 'And the
seven years of dearth began to come, according as Joseph had said: and the
dearth was in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for
bread: and Pharaoh said unto all the Egyptians, Go unto Joseph; what he saith to
you, do.
And the famine was over all the face of the earth: And Joseph opened all the
storehouses, and sold unto the Egyptians; and the famine waxed sore in the land
of Egypt.
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph for to buy corn; because that the
famine was so sore in all lands.']
[278] [Maspero, 'Stele of the Excommunication,' RP, 4, 95.]
[279] [Gen. 41:46. 'And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt'.]
[280] [See note below.]
[281] [Renouf, 'Tale of the Two Brothers,' RP, 2, 139.]
[284] [Gen. 37:5-8. 'And
Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the
more.
And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and
also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made
obeisance to my sheaf.
And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou
indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams,
and for his words.']
[285] [Gen. 39:9-12. 'There is
none greater in this house than I; neither hath he kept back any thing from me
but thee, because thou art his wife: how then can I do this great wickedness,
and sin against God?
And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not
unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
And it came to pass about this time, that Joseph went into the house to do his
business; and there was none of the men of the house there within.
And she caught him by his garment, saying, Lie with me: and he left his garment
in her hand, and fled, and got him out.']
[286] [Renouf, 'Tale of the Two Brothers,' RP, 2, 139. See pp. 140-1.]
[288] [Of Isis and Osiris, ch. 38.]
[289] [Renouf, 'Tale of the Two Brothers,' RP, 2, 139.]
[290] [Ibid., 139. See pp. 145-8.]
[291] [Gen.
41:40-46. 'Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my
people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, See, I have set thee over all the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and
arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
And he made him to ride in the second chariot which he had; and they cried
before him, Bow the knee: and he made him ruler over all the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall no man lift
up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt.
And Pharaoh called Joseph's name Zaphnathpaaneah; and he gave him to wife
Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On. And Joseph went out over all
the land of Egypt.
And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And
Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land
of Egypt.']
[292] [Gen. 45:3-4. 'And
Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his
brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.
And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came
near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.']
[293] [Gen. 41:46. 'And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.']
[294] [History of Joseph, p. 36. Unable to trace this work.]
[295] [2 Esd. 7:26-28. 'Therefore, Ezra, emptiness for the empty, fullness for the full! 'Listen! The time shall come when the signs I have foretold will be seen; the city which is now invisible shall appear and the country now concealed be made visible. Everyone who has been delivered from the evils I have foretold shall see for himself my marvellous acts.' NEB version.]
[296] [Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. The Second Series, vol. 2, p. 54. 'The Egyptian Asclepius was called the "son of Pthah;" he was therefore greatly revered at Memphis, and, indeed, throughout the whole country. The Egyptians acknowledged two of this name; the first, the grandfather of the other, according to the Greeks, and the reputed inventor of medicine; who received peculiar honours on "a certain mountain on the Lybian side of the Nile, near the City of Crocodiles," where he was reported "to have been buried."']
[297] [Eccl'us. Prologue. In the NEB version, the mention of Solomon and Jesus' imitation of him is absent.]
[298] [Prov. 4:20. 'My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.']
[299] [Precepts of Ptah-Hetep. See also the note below.]
[300] [Virey, 'Precept of Ptah-Hotep,' RPNS, 3, 1. See p. 17.]
[301] [Eccl'us. Pro. This phrase is also absent in the NEB version.]
[302] [Precepts of Ptah-Hetep.]
[303] [Eccl'us. Pro. 'When I came to Egypt and settled there in the thirty-eighth year of the reign of King Euergetes, I found great scope for education.' NEB version.]
[304] [Grenfell and Hunt, Λογια Ιησου: Sayings of Our Lord. From an Early Greek Papyrus, London, 1897.]
[305] [Irenaeus,
Against Heresies, bk. 1. ch. 2. 1-4. '1. They proceed to tell us that the
Propator of their scheme was known only to Monogenes, who sprang from him; in
other words, only to Nous, while to all the others he was invisible and
incomprehensible. And, according to them, Nous alone took pleasure in
contemplating the Father, and exulted in considering his immeasurable greatness;
while he also meditated how he might communicate to the rest of the
Æons the greatness of the Father, revealing
to them how vast and mighty he was, and how he was without beginning,—beyond
comprehension, and altogether incapable of being seen. But, in accordance with
the will of the Father, Sige restrained him, because it was his design to lead
them all to an acquaintance with the aforesaid Propator, and to create within
them a desire of investixratinsj his nature. In like manner, the rest of the
Æons also, in a kind of quiet way, had a
wish to behold the Author of their being, and to contemplate that First Cause
which had no beginning.
2. But there rushed forth in advance of the rest that
Æon who was much the latest of them, and was
the youngest of the Duodecad which sprang from Anthropos and Ecclesia, namely
Sophia, and suffered passion apart from the embrace of her consort Theletos.
This passion, indeed, first arose among those who were connected with Nous and
Aletheia, but passed as by contagion to this degenerate
Æon, who acted under a pretence of love, but
was in reality influenced by temerity, because she had not, like Nous, enjoyed
communion with the perfect Father. This passion, they say, consisted in a desire
to search into the nature of the Father; for she wished, according to them, to
comprehend his greatness. When she could not attain her end, inasmuch as she
aimed at an impossibility, and thus became involved in an extreme agony of mind,
while both on account of the vast profundity as well as the unsearchable nature
of the Father, and on account of the love she bore him, she was ever stretching
herself forward, there was danger lest she should at last have been absorbed by
his sweetness, and resolved into his absolute essence, unless she had met with
that Power which supports all things, and preserves them outside of the
unspeakable greatness. This power they term Horos; by whom, they say, she was
restrained and supported; and that then, having with difficulty been brought
back to herself, she was convinced that the Father is incomprehensible, and so
laid aside her original design, along with that passion which had arisen within
her from the overwhelming influence of her admiration.
3. But others of them fabulously describe the passion and restoration of Sophia
as follows: They say that she, having engaged in an impossible and
impracticable attempt, brought forth an amorphous substance, such as her female
nature enabled her to produce. When she looked upon it, her first feeling was
one of grief, on account of the imperfection of its generation, and then of fear
lest this should end her own existence. Next she lost, as it were, all command
of herself, and was in the greatest perplexity while endeavouring to discover
the cause of all this, and in what way she might conceal what had happened.
Being greatly harassed by these passions, she at last changed her mind, and
endeavoured to return anew to the Father. When, however, she in some measure
made the attempt, strength failed her, and she became a suppliant of the Father.
The other Æons, Nous in particular,
presented their supplications along with her. And hence they declare material
substance had its beginning from ignorance and grief, and fear and bewilderment.
4. The Father afterwards produces, in his own image, by means of Monogenes, the
above-mentioned Horos, without conjunction, masculo-feminine. For they maintain
that sometimes the Father acts in conjunction with Sige, but that at other times
he shows himself independent both of male and female. They term this Horos both
Stauros and Lytrotes, and Carpistes, and Horothetes, and Metagoges. And by this
Horos they declare that Sophia was purified and established, while she was also
restored to her proper conjunction. For her enthymesis (or inborn idea) having
been taken away from her, along with its supervening passion, she herself
certainly remained within the Pleroma; but her enthymesis, with its passion, was
separated from her by Horos, fenced off, and expelled from that circle. This
enthymesis was, no doubt, a spiritual substance, possessing some of the natural
tendencies of an Æon, but at the same time shapeless and without form, because
it had received nothing. And on this account they say that it was an imbecile
and feminine production.' ANCL, 5.]
[306] [Pistis Sophia.]
[307] [Ex.
15:2. 'The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my
God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt
him.'
Ex. 17:16. 'For he said, Because the
LORD hath sworn that the LORD will have war with Amalek from generation to
generation.']
[308] [Is. 12:2. 'Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.']
[310] [Origen, Against Celsus, bk. 1, ch. 23. 'He continues in this strain: "If he had determined upon these things, and underwent chastisement in obedience to his Father, it is manifest that, being a God, and submitting voluntarily, those things that were done agreeably to his own decision were neither painful nor distressing." But he did not observe that here he was at once contradicting himself. For if he granted that He was chastised because He had determined upon these things, and had submitted Himself to His Father, it is clear that He actually suffered punishment, and it was impossible that what was inflicted on Him by His chastisers should not be painful, because pain is an involuntary thing. But if, because He was willing to suffer, His inflictions were neither painful nor distressing, how did He grant that "lie was chastised?" He did not perceive that when Jesus had once, by His birth, assumed a body, He assumed one which was capable both of suffering pains, and those distresses incidental to humanity, if we are to understand by distresses what no one voluntarily chooses. Since, therefore, He voluntarily assumed a body, not wholly of a different nature from that of human flesh, so along with His body He assumed also its sufferings and distresses, which it was not in His power to avoid enduring, it being in the power of those who inflicted them to send upon Him things distressing and painful. And in the preceding pages we have already shown, that He would not have come into the hands of men had He not so willed. But He did come, because He was willing to come, and because it was manifest beforehand that His dying upon behalf of men would be of advantage to the whole human race.' ANCL, 23.]
[311] [Gen.
19:24-25. 'Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire
from the LORD out of heaven;
And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the inhabitants of the
cities, and that which grew upon the ground.']
[312] [Ps. 82:1. 'A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.']
[313] [Ps. 2:7. 'I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.']
[314] [Ps. 89:18. 'For the LORD is our defence; and the Holy One of Israel is our king.']
[315] [Is. 9:6-7. 'O thou
enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities;
their memorial is perished with them.
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment.']
[317] [1 Sam. 2:10. 'The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.']
[318] [1 Sam. 12:3. 'Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have desired! and, behold, the LORD hath set a king over you.']
[319] [Ps. 2:2. 'The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed.']
[320] [Ps. 18:50. 'Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and showeth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.']
[321] [Ps. 20:6. 'Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.']
[322] [Ps. 28:8. 'The LORD is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.']
[323] [Ps. 84:9. 'Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.']
[324] [Ps. 89:51. 'Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O LORD; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.']
[325] [Lam. 4:20. 'The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.']
[326] [Hab. 3:13. 'Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, even for salvation with thine anointed; thou woundedst the head out of the house of the wicked, by discovering the foundation unto the neck. Selah.']
[328] [Ps. 2:7. 'I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.']
[329] [Ps. 2:7-9. 'I will
declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I
begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel.']
[331] [Ps. 2:7-12. 'I will
declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I
begotten thee.
Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the
uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt dash them in pieces like a
potter's vessel.
Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
Serve the LORD with fear, and rejoice with trembling.
Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is
kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.'
Is. 42:1. 'To the chief Musician,
Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so
panteth my soul after thee, O God.'
Matt. 3:1-3. 'In those days came John
the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea,
And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of
one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths
straight.']
[332] [Ps. 69:21. 'They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.']
[333] [Ps. 22:18. 'They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.']
[334] [Is.
40:3-5. 'The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of
the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low:
and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.'
Matt. 3:3. 'For this is he that was
spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the
wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.']
[336] [Ps. 110:4. 'The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.']
[337] [Sayce,
HL, pp. 56-7. 'The abbreviated form was that current among the nations of
the north; in the south it was confounded with the Semitic word which appears in
Assyrian as dadu, "dear little child." This is the word which we have in
Be-dad or Ben-Dad, "the son of Dad," the father of the Edomite Hadad; we have it
also in the David of the Old Testament. David, or Dod, as the word ought to be
read, which is sometimes written Dodo with the vocalic suffix of the nominative,
is the masculine corresponding to a Phoenician goddess whose name means "the
beloved one," and who was called Dido by the writers of Rome. Dido, in fact, was
the consort of the Sun-god, conceived as Tammuz, "the beloved son," and was the
presiding deity of Carthage, whom legend confounded with Elissa, the foundress
of the city. In the article I have alluded to above, I expressed my conviction
that the names of Dodo and David pointed to a worship of the Sun-god, under the
title of "the beloved one," in southern Canaan as well as in Phoenicia. I had
little idea at the time how soon my belief would be verified. Within the last
year, the squeeze of the Moabite stone, now in the Louvre, has been subjected to
a thorough examination by the German Professors Socin and Smend, with the result
of correcting some of the received readings and of filling up some of the
lacunae. One of the most important discoveries that have been thus made is that
the Israelites of the northern kingdom worshipped a Dodo or Dod by the side of
Yahveh, or rather that they adored the supreme God under the name of Dodo as
well as under that of Yahveh. Mesha, the Moabite king, in describing the
victories which his god Chemosh had enabled him to gain over his Israelitish
foes, tells us that he had carried away from Ataroth "the arel (or altar) of
Dodo and dragged it before Chemosh," and from Nebo "the arels (or altars) of
Yahveh," which he likewise "dragged before Chemosh." Here the arel or
"altar" of Dodo is placed in parallelism with the arels of Yahveh; and it
is quite clear, therefore, that Dodo, like Yahveh, was a name under which the
deity was worshipped by the people of the land. I have suggested that Dod or
Dodo was an old title of the supreme God in the Jebusite Jerusalem, and that
hence Isaiah (v. 1), when describing Jerusalem as the tower of the vineyard the
Lord had planted in Israel, calls him Dod-i, "my beloved." We can easily
understand how a name of the kind, with such a signification, should have been
transferred by popular affection from the Deity to the king of whom it is said
that "all Israel and Judah loved him" (1 Sam. xviii. 16).'
Neubauer, 'The Moabite Stone,'
RPNS, 2, 194. See p. 201.]
[338] [2 Sam. 12:25. 'And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the LORD.']
[339] [1
John 5:6-7. 'This is he that came by
water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood.
And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the
Holy Ghost: and these three are one.']
[343] [Is. 52:13-14. 'Behold, my servant shall
deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men.']
[344] [Is. 53:1-10. 'Who hath
believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.']
[350] [Lefebure, 'Book of Hades,' RP, 12, 10th division, p. 6.]
[351] [Is. 3:4. 'And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.']
[352]
[Is. 11:6-9. 'The wolf also
shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the
calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead
them.
And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together:
and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child
shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be
full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.']
[354] [Rit. ch.
71.
Cf. Is. 58:11.
'And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and
make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring
of water, whose waters fail not.']
[355] [Is. 53:2. 'For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.']
[357] [Ps.
45:1-9. 'Thus saith the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have
holden, to subdue nations before him; and I will loose the loins of kings, to
open before him the two leaved gates; and the gates shall not be shut;
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in
pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret
places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am
the God of Israel.
For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by
thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee,
though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is
none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD
do all these things.
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness:
let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness
spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the
potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What
makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?']
[358] [See above note.]
[359] [See note below.]
[360] [Is. 63:1-6. 'Who is
this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is
glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that
speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth
in the winefat?
I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me:
for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their
blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to
uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld
me.
And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury,
and I will bring down their strength to the earth.']
[361] [Is. 52:1-13. 'Awake,
awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the
uncircumcised and the unclean.
Shake thyself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself
from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
For thus saith the LORD, Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be
redeemed without money.
For thus saith the Lord GOD, My people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn
there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away
for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my
name continually every day is blasphemed.
Therefore my people shall know my name: therefore they shall know in that day
that I am he that doth speak: behold, it is I.
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings,
that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth
salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice; with the voice together shall they sing:
for they shall see eye to eye, when the LORD shall bring again Zion.
Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD
hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the
ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out
of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the LORD.
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the LORD will go
before you; and the God of Israel will be your rereward.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and
be very high.
As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and
his form more than the sons of men:
So shall he sprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for
that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not
heard shall they consider.'
Is. 53:1-12. 'Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the
LORD revealed?
For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry
ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no
beauty that we should desire him.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief:
and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him
not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him
stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities:
the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and
the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is
brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb,
so he openeth not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his
generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the
transgression of my people was he stricken.
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because
he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt
make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his
days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand.
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his
knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their
iniquities.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the
spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he
was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made
intercession for the transgressors.']
[362] [Ps.
22:17-18. 'BI may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me.
They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.'
Ps. 31:5. 'Into thine hand I commit my
spirit: thou hast redeemed me, O LORD God of truth.'
Ps. 41:9. 'Yea, mine own familiar
friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel
against me.']
[364] [John 12:38. 'That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?']
[366] [Fison, 'Notes on Fijian Burial Customs,' JAI, 10. See full text.]
[367] [Is. 40:10. 'Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.']
[368] [Is. 40:11. 'He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.']
[369] [Is. 9:6. 'For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.']
[372] [Is. 51:5. 'My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.']
[374] [Is. 53:7. 'He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.']
[375] [Is. 42:19. 'Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?']
[376] [Avkath Rochel, after Hulsius., pp. 22,
23, 35, 36.
Eisenmenger, Endecktes Judenthum.]
[377] [Is. 61:2. 'To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn.']
[378] [Luke 4:19. 'To preach the acceptable year of the Lord.']
[379] [Source.]
[380] [Heb. 5:7. 'Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared.']
[381] [Is. 42:1. 'Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.']
[382] [Talmud, Codex Sanhedrin, ch. 3, p. 38.]
[383] [Ps. 72:1-3. 'A Psalm
for Solomon. Give the king thy judgments, O God, and thy righteousness unto the
king's son.
He shall judge thy people with righteousness, and thy poor with judgment.
The mountains shall bring peace to the people, and the little hills, by
righteousness.']
[384] [Talmud. Cod. Sanhedrin, ch. 3, p. 38.]
[385] [Ibid., ch. 4.]
[386] [Ibid., ch. 7.]
[387] [Ps. 72:16-17. 'There
shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the
fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like
grass of the earth.
His name shall endure for ever: his name shall be continued as long as the sun:
and men shall be blessed in him: all nations shall call him blessed.']
[388] [Zech. 12:10, 11. 'And I
will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and
shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his firstborn.
In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of
Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon.']
[389] [Rev. 16:16. 'And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.']
[390] [Is. 25:6. 'And in this mountain shall the
LORD of hosts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on
the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined.'
Is. 27:2-3. In that day sing ye unto her, A vineyard of red wine.
I the LORD do keep it; I will water it every moment: lest any hurt it, I will
keep it night and day.']
[391] [Mic. 4:4. 'But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.']
[392] [Papyrus of Nu.]
[393] [Ex. 24:16. 'And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.']
[394] [Ez. 11:23. 'And the glory of the LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.']
[395] [Ex. 24:17. 'And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.']
[396] [Ex. 21:1. 'Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.']
[397] [Zech. 8:3-4. 'Thus
saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain of
the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the
streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.']
[398] [Ps. 96:13. 'Before the LORD: for he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: he shall judge the world with righteousness, and the people with his truth.']
[399] [Ps. 97:2. 'Clouds and darkness are round about him: righteousness and judgment are the habitation of his throne.']
[400] [Ps. 45:6. 'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre.']
[401] [2 Kin. 23:13. 'And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.']
[402] [Is. 24:23. 'Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.']
[403] [Jer. 51:25. 'Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.']
[404] [Jer. 17:3. 'O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance and all thy treasures to the spoil, and thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.']
[405] [Zech. 1:17. 'Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the LORD shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.']
[406] [2 Kin. 23:13. 'And the high places that were before Jerusalem, which were on the right hand of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had builded for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Zidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, and for Milcom the abomination of the children of Ammon, did the king defile.']
[407] [Is. 10:32. 'As yet shall he remain at Nob that day: he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.']
[408] [Zech. 4:7. 'Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.']
[409] [Zech. 6:12-13. 'And
speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man
whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall
build the temple of the LORD:
Even he shall build the temple of the LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and
shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne:
and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.']
[410] [Is. 14:13. 'For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north.']
[411] [Ps. 1:5. 'Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.']
[412] [Ps. 22:22. 'I will declare thy name unto my brethren: in the midst of the congregation will I praise thee.']
[413] [Ps. 82:1. 'A Psalm of Asaph. God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.']
[415] [Zech. 1:16. 'Therefore
thus saith the LORD; I am returned to Jerusalem with mercies: my house shall be
built in it, saith the LORD of hosts, and a line shall be stretched forth upon
Jerusalem.'
Zech. 11:1-2. 'Open thy doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may devour thy
cedars.
Howl, fir tree; for the cedar is fallen; because the mighty are spoiled: howl, O
ye oaks of Bashan; for the forest of the vintage is come down.'
Zech. 8:3. 'Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell
in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and
the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy mountain.']
[416] [Zech. 8:12. 'For the seed shall be prosperous; the vine shall give her fruit, and the ground shall give her increase, and the heavens shall give their dew; and I will cause the remnant of this people to possess all these things.']
[418] [Ps. 37:9-10. 'For evildoers shall be cut
off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently
consider his place, and it shall not be.']
[419] [Ps. 37:11. 'But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.']
[420] [Ps. 37:18. 'The LORD knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever.']
[421] [Ps. 37:20. 'But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.']
[422] [Ps. 37:22. 'For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.']
[423] [Ps. 37:29. 'The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever.']
[424] [Ps. 37:34. 'Wait on the LORD, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.']
[425] [Cobb, Origines Judaica.]
[427] [Hos. 6:1-3. 'Come, and
let us return unto the LORD: for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath
smitten, and he will bind us up.
After two days will he revive us: in the third day he will raise us up, and we
shall live in his sight.
Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is
prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter
and former rain unto the earth.']
[428] [Ps. 14:7. 'Oh that the
salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the LORD bringeth back the
captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.'
Ps. 16:10. 'For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou
suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.']
[429] [Maspero, 'Stele of King Horsiatef,' RP, 6, 85. See p. 90.]
[431] [Micah 4:1-8. 'But in
the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the LORD
shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above
the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of
the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his
ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the
word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and
they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks:
nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war
any more.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none
shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in
the name of the LORD our God for ever and ever.
In that day, saith the LORD, will I assemble her that halteth, and I will gather
her that is driven out, and her that I have afflicted;
And I will make her that halted a remnant, and her that was cast far off a
strong nation: and the LORD shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth,
even for ever.
And thou, O tower of the flock, the strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto
thee shall it come, even the first dominion; the kingdom shall come to the
daughter of Jerusalem.']
[432] ['Allegories of Sacred Law,' in Works (1854), vol. 1, pp. 85-6. '"And God cast a deep trance upon Adam, and sent him to sleep; and he took one of his ribs," and so on. The literal statement conveyed in these words is a fabulous one; for how can any one believe that a woman was made of a rib of a man, or, in short, that any human being was made out of another? And what hindered God, as he had made man out of the earth, from making woman in the same manner? For the Creator was the same, and the material was almost interminable, from which every distinctive quality whatever was made.' C. D. Yonge's tr.]