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El, signifies, for Nebo means to increase, and in connection with the sun, means the moon when increasing in light: thus it appears that we have a true understanding of this passage of scripture.

Apollo was also one of the appellatives of Joshua. 'Aróλλav Apollon means to destroy,' so Joshua was a destroyer, commanded to destroy the idolatrous worship of the Canaanites-Joshua in hebrew means a saviour, thus by destroying the idolatry of the Canaanites, he was appointed to be the saviour of the Hebrews.

The name of Apollo has never been carried further back than the time of the ancient Greeks before the time of Homer, but it is evidently derived from the Hebrew Hapolaah, 'to separate, divide. The vulgate renders Exod. ii. 7. quanto miraculo dividet, to divide miraculously; to separate between the good and evil-to pronounce judgment to intercede between the judge and the criminal-A wonderful separation, exceeding experience, power or expectation.' Gen. xviii. 14. 2 Chron. xxvi. 15. All which most eminently applies to Noah, who was appointed to pronounce judgment, to intercede and finally to separate until judgment was executed.

History and tradition had handed down to the

Vide Parkhurst, l. 1.

ancient Greeks all the circumstances of the flood, and the destruction of the old world, by this non, miraculous judgment, from which word they framed the word 'Aróxλwy Apollon, to destroy? This also gave rise to the Delphic Oracle: for as Noah had been a wonderful oracle to the Antediluvians; so the ancient Greeks built a magnificent temple at Delphos, and erected a statue to perpetuate that awful miracle, and the man who had been obedient to the divine command. In the hand of the statue they put a golden bow mentioned by the Greek poets,—

"He from his golden bow."

Which was taken from scripture in the narrative after the flood, viz: I do set my bow in the cloud.

Diodorus, speaking of Apollo,' says, that by the wars of the Gods, the Giants became extinct. Nothing can more accurately point out the period of the Deluge. In Gen. vi. 4. it is said, There were Giants in the earth in those days: and by the judgment of God the whole race was swept from the face of the earth except Noah and his family, the Giants, or great men, together with all of inferior degree, appear to have been swallowed in the universal ruin,

Apollo is rendered famous by Homer for destroying Typhon; Python and Typhon are only dialectic variations, they mean the same man, viz. Og, the king of Bashan, as follows under Hercules.

Bacchus, from the place where he obtained a knowledge of all the learning of the east, was called Dionysius; i. e. Dio, and Nisi. Plutarch mentions the flight 4ovúrou, of Dio-nysius. Homer speaks of the city Nisa, sacred to Bacchus. Nisi was a city close to a mountain in Arabia near Egypt, where Moses was received when he fled from the face of Pharoah. At Nisi he resided forty years, and was instructed in mount Sinai respecting the rites and ceremonies of the worship of God. For this reason it was that he erected an altar there, which he called Jehovah Nisi. Exod. xvii. 15. The same is said of Bacchus by Ovid. "Bacchus was instructed in the highest wisdom in a mount of Arabia called Nisi." Diodorus Siculus informs us, that the ancient Brachmans acknowledged the whole system of their civil and religious policy to have been derived from Dionysius; that consequence of their veneration for that personage, who introduced the knowledge of religion and literature into India, divine rites were instituted in honor of him.'

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* Ind. Antiq.

It is proper to remark that Nisi, and Sinai have a similar signification. Sini in hebrew, by putting the N. before the D S. is Nisi; and as

Sini, has the same meaning, as oivw to hurt, or wound, which is derived from it; and as 'D Nisi means a refuge, a banner; so Moses, by a change of the letter called the altar Nisi, and yet preserved the meaning of the root Sini, saying in effect, Jehovah, who is my defence, will wound all who shall sacrilegiously ascend his holy mountain. Exod. xix. ver. 21.

Bacchus is said in the Mythology to have been born in Egypt; put in an ark and exposed to the waters; the same is recorded concerning Moses. Bacchus had two mothers, so had Moses, his own mother, and the daughter of Pharoah - The flight of Bacchus was toward the Red sea; so was the flight of Moses-One of the symbols in the theology of Bacchus was a serpent; Moses set up the brazen serpent in the wilderness-Bacchus had great numbers of women in his army; so had Moses in his journey to Canaan-Bacchus is said to have dried up the rivers Orontes and Hydaspes by striking them with his Thyrsus, and passed over them; Moses divided the red sea, and the river Jordan with his rod and passed through them-That an ivy stick thrown on the ground by Bacchus crept

like a dragon; so by the command of Moses, the rod was cast down and became a serpent Bacchus was called Dio-Nysus; which is the inscription on the altar-A dog was given to Bacchus as a constant companion; so Moses had his Caleb, which in Hebrew means a dog'-That the enemies of Bacchus were covered with darkness; while those who were with him enjoyed perfect daythe same is recorded of Moses-That Bacchus drew water out of a rock by striking it with his Thyrsus; and that wherever he went the land flowed with milk and honey; Moses struck the rock and the waters gushed out, and the land of Canaan was said to flow with milk and honey-Orpheus calls Bacchus the legislator, and attributes to him two tables of laws-Bacchus is said by the Greeks in the Mythology to have had Silenus for his adviser. This word is the same as the word

Shilan, which means to overspread a large space of ground by a vast population, and this is the same with Shilo, the Messiah, the angel sent to conduct the Hebrews to Canaan: and to him was the gathering of the people to be. Gen. ch. xlix. 10. Hence the Greeks say that Silenus was the great instructor of Bacchus-In the Mythology, Silenus is employed in treading out the grapes; which is the same as is said of SHILO. Gen. xlix.