Dissertations on the principal prophecies representing the divine and the human character of our Lord Jesus Christ - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1808 Excerpt: ...to its frequent use in Hesiod, and Homer, and in.Euripides; but its radical part, lax, is clearly the venerable name of the God of the He" brews. s brtzcs, aspirated as it ought to be; and the sense of vociferation, shouting, or exclamation, attached to its derivatives, Ia%-i? and Ia-a, was evidently derived from the primitive Hebrew doxology, Hallelu-iah, "Praise the Lord;" used also at the Oscophoria, or " Procession of Branches" by the primitive Athenians in the time of Theseus, according to Plutarch; " when at the libations, the votaries exclaimed EXeXu---"Ik;" as they did also at the orgies of Bacchus, or the Mystical Iacch-us," the most ancient name of this heathen god of revelry: whence the f Mystica va?inus lac chi," recorded by Virgil, Georg. i. 166, and of which the best explanation is furnished by Matt. iii. 12, referring to, or citing Amos'ix. 9j and Isa. v. 24, and xxi. 10. The following curious account is furnished by Herodotus, b. viii. § 65, of an incident said to have happened during the Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes, who destroyed all their temples. (See a remarkable oracle delivered on that occasion, Euseb. Prepar. E. 13. B. p. 689-) ft Diarus, the son of H Theocydes, an Athenian exile, in great s3 "reputation "reputation with the Medes or Persians, "reported, that happening to be in the plain "of Thria, with Demaratus of Lacedemon, "after Attica had been abandoned by the "Athenians, and ravaged by the land forces "of Xerxes, he saw a great cloud of dust "rising from Elcusis, such as might be raised is by the marching of thirty thousand men; "and that while they were wondering thereat, "and not knowing who could have occai sione...