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Wall, Student of Chrift-Church Ox- Mrs. Wells. ford. Mifs Williamson. Names which came too late to be inserted in their proper Places. *The Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich. Mr. John Barnard, Little St. Helens. Thomas Browne, Efq; Thomas Cockburn, Efq; of York. Mrs. Carbonnel. Mifs Carbonnel. Mr. Thomas Dowera, of Ware. Mr. Henry, 2 Copies. Mr. Jofeph Imbleton, White Chapple. Mr. John Jones. Mrs. Hewet. Mifs Horton. Mifs Elizabeth King, of Ditto. After all the exacteft Care, it has been impoffible to prevent many Errors of the Prefs, which the Reader is defired to correct and excufe. În p. 49. n. 147. 2 col. 1. 5. dele willing. In THE CHILE we to Jove the pure libations pay, Than Jove what apter claims the hallow'd lay? The God, whose power difpers'd, whose arm fubdued The daring Titans, earth's rebellious brood: Ver. 1. Libations] Orig. Пapa word, the true fenfe of which is that given in the tranflation: Mr. Prior's is very wide of the author's meaning, as well as of the time when the hymns were fung, While we to Jove felect the holy victim. 'Tis a pleafing reflection, that there are scarce any of the religious cuftoms of the Heathens, but confirm the truth of divine revelation. It Who will be impoffible to give a rational account of thefe libations among them, without having recourfe to pofitive inftitution. And the positive inftitution will be as unaccountable, unlefs we fuppofe it to refer to the great libation," the blood poured out and shed for many for the remiffion of fins." See Num. xxviii. 7. Deut. xii. 27. Ver. 3. The God, whofe power, &c.] The Original is Info Enatupa, The difperfer or scatterer of the giants born of the earth. It is B well 1 Who rules the sky, unbounded and alone, For ever great, for ever fix'd his throne? In trembling doubt my mind delays the song, Thy birth disputed and the contest long : How fhall I fing? Dictæan doft thou hear, Or, doth Lycæan more delight thine ear ? 5 נפלים) well known to the learned reader, that the defcendants of Cain are diftinguished in scripture, by the name of the fons of Men, or Adam; thofe of Seth, by the name of the fons of GOD. Gen. vi. 2. Attending to this remark, we may, I hope, give a fatisfactory reafon of the epithet nhofor, (earth-born) and others of the fame fenfe in other writers, when applied to the giants in the Heathen Mythology. The Lord God formed man (of) the duft of the earth. Gen. ii. 7. The original word for earth in this paffage is, TN HADMeH, and there is no difpute but the name Adam is very nearly related to it. Since then the giants (D) Ne PHLIM, the deferters of the true worship) are the fons and daughters of men (Ha Da M) or Adam, Gen. vi. 4 and confequently derive their pedigree from (HADMeH) the earth: we have here a plain ground for the Heathen tradition of the giants, the rebels againft God being fons of the earth. It is remarkable in this View, that the LXX render the word Ne PHLIM by Tiyares, Gen. vi. 4. It may perhaps be alfo poffible to affign a reafon of the attributes ExaTnpa (the fcatterer or difperfer of the Inhoyor, earth born) which Callimachus afcribes to his Jupiter or fupreme god. The learned Spanheim has well proved, that our poet was acquainted with the LXX. tranflation of the Bible, and even if he was not, there is no doubt, but tradition would preferve, though in a confused and imperfect manner an account of the great event which happened at Babel. Where we find, that no fooner was the earth freed from thofe fearful impreffions, which the deluge must have made upon the eye-witneffes of it, and mankind again multiplied, but the fons of men (the earth-born race) began again to rebel against God: and fo became Ne PHLIM or giants, Gen. xi. 4. So the Lord fcattered them abroad upon the face of the whole earth, Gen. xi. 8, 9. Ver. 9. Dictaan, &c.] Jupiter was generally worshipped by his votaries, as without end, though not without beginning: his birth-place being the fubject of much difpute, and various nations claiming that honour to themfelves: a matter eafily to be accounted for: as there were many Jupiters (kings fo called) and each country in which a Jupiter had been born, maintained itself the birth-place of the fovereign Jupiter. The difpute feems to have been carried higheft between the Arcadians and Cretans, each vindicating to their country, the glory of firft bringing to light the great king of of the gods. Callimachus here takes upon him to decide the controverfy; and though fevere upon the Cretan, gives him his just honour, determining the birth-place of Jupiter in Arcadia, the place of his education in Crete. Cicero (in his Nature of the Gods, B. iii. c. 21.) tells us, that, "The divines reckon up three Jupiters, two of which they report to have been born in Arcadia; the father of the one Ether, whofe offspring too were Proferpine and Bacchus : the father of the other Coelus, whofe daughter the goddefs of war, Minerva, is faid to be; the third, a Cretan, the fon of Saturn, whofe fepulchre is fhewn in that ifland." See, in this and the next obfervation - the religion of nature, and the admired wifdom of these Greeks and Romans! |