Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley.
- William Stukeley
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Palæographia sacra. Or discourses on sacred subjects / By William Stukeley. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![C 1 r4 ] As to the firfl. the mount Herman is commonly, but erroneoufly thought to be that fo called, which lyes on the eaft fide of the plain of Efdraelon; nigh mount Gilboa, and below mount Tabor, but truly that Her¬ man is meant, which lyes ftill much farther north, at the head of the river Jordan, and is the northern boun¬ dary of the land of Paleftine ; and is a parcel of the great mountains of Lib anus. As to the former Hermon, even that is far enough from mount Sion ; it has no manner of connection with mount Sion, but when we admit of the latter, the difficulty in the Pfalm vanifhes. it 2. We correCt the reading of the word Sion into Si- rion. like as the dew of Hermon, which fell upon the hill of Sirijon. our tranflation errs likewife in the fenfe ; as if the dew fell but once ; fo in the number; as if one mountain of Sion, but thus the verfion ought to be, from the original Hebrew. <« Like as the dew of Hermon falling upon the mountains of Sirijon. The word 7nounta.ins is enough to allure us, it can¬ not be the more famous mount Sion at Jerufalem here uncleritood i which is but one fmall hill, caftle—like, on which David built his palace, his city, fepulcher, and the holy Tabernacle for the ark : till aSolomon built the Temple on an adjacent hill: and therefore that hill whereon the Temple flood, was frequently afterward, by a figure, call’d mount Sion, but this is never nam’d in the plural number mountains. For this reafon, the Syriac verfion, the vulgar Latin, aad the Arabic, in our firft text, depart from the ori- 2 ginal.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30408374_0130.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
