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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![[ ”5 ] ginal. . they not underftanding the true purport, tranf- late it in the lingular, mountain, and fo do the Pfalms in our Liturgy, in the Bible tranllation, ’tis right, mountains, though wrong, Sion. Tile translators of our Bibles, fenftble of the diffi¬ culty we are difputing about, render it thus, as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that defended upon the mountains of Zion. wherein the beauty of the com¬ panion is perfectly loft, for a continuity is wanting, to render the fimilitude proper, the dew muft run from one hili to another, like the oil falling from Aaron s head, to his beard, and to his garments, they rightly tranflate 7?iou?itains^ though nowife proner for Sion at [erufalem. But Hermon and Sirijon are contiguous mountains, one lying under the other. Deuteron. III. g. Hermon, tne Sidonians call Sirion, but the Amorites, Shenir. Solomon s Song IV7. 8. Shenir and Hermon. Solo- mo7t s Songs may be called Duets, a male and female interlocutor, here he fpeaks. i( Come with me from C£ Lebanon, my fpoufe, with me from Lebanon : look “from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon : from the lions dens, from the mountains of u the leopards.” 'J nis is part of a fong compos’d by the king, when he entertain d his Egyptian fpoufe, at his tower or plea- fure houfe on mount Lebanon, looking toward Damaf- cus. the fweeteft profpedf in the world. We muft likewife correct Deuteron. IV. 48. from Aroer, which is by the bank of the river Arnon^ even Qk2 unt®](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30408374_0131.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
