5336. There is a medallion of Romulus and Remus with a star over each of their heads, as we find the Latin poets speaking of their children of princes under the same metaphor.

On the medal stamped on the marriage of Nero and Octavia, you see the sun over the head of Nero, and the moon over that of Octavia.

Under Tiberius a medal was stamped to the memory of Augustus, over whose head you see the star that his father Julius Cesar was supposed to have been (by death) changed

into.

5340. [Acts vii. 55, 56.] A parhelion, seen so frequently at Spitsbergen, is said to be nothing more than a reflection of the sun's disc in the clouds.

See St. PIERRE's Studies of Nature, vol. iii. p. 70. On Monday morning, March 16th, 1812, there was seen at Carlisle the beautiful phenomenon of two parhelia, or mock suns, in the heavens. They were first observed about 10 o'clock, and appeared of variable brightness till nearly twelve, when they vanished. While brightest, they almost rivalled the "Monarch of the sky" himself, being apparently of the same diameter, and of a steady light. - These curious appearances, which formerly filled with terror whole nations, who thought them the precursors of divine displeasure, of carthquakes and dreadful revolutions; are now regarded with sensations of pleasure by the philosophic mind, it being generally known that they are produced by the principles of refraction and reflection, occasioned by the image of the sun impressed on the floating masses of hail, snow, or vapors, more or less condensed.

Public Prints.

5337. [— 45. Drave out] This word is improperly rendered destroyed every where in Joshua.

5338. [- 55.] It has been shewn by Dr. HERSCHEL, that the rays of caloric are refrangible, but less so than the rays of light: Hence the One Divine Spirit, in passing through our gaseous atmosphere of love, exhibits therein a Divine HUMAN APPEARANCE more central, than it does as it passes through our subordinate gaseous atmosphere of wisdom; and consequently Stephen saw, in the two concentric circles of our spiritual atmosphere, Jesus' standing on the right hand of God.

See also DALTON's Chemical Philosophy, part i. p. 102.

By the principle of refraction, the image of a candle is seen in as many different places as the MULTIPLYING GLASS

has surfaces.

See Ps. xvi. 8.

JOYCE's Scientif. Dialogues; Astronomy, p. 9.

5339.

In the New Christian Heaven, now looked into by Stephen, there are necessarily two concentric spheres; one under the feet, the other over the heads of the spirits there. If a quantity of water be poured into a vessel containing quicksilver, two images of any object will be seen by reflection from them, one at the surface of the water, and the other at that of the quick-silver. (PRIESTLEY's Hist. of Vision, p. 415) Two transparent concentric globes will produce the same effect by refraction.

5344. [ 58, 59.] Stephen was evidently twice stoned first by the Sauledrin, in the way of condemnation; then by the witnesses and the mob, to whose fury and destruction he was given up by the sentence of outlawry.

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5348. [ 35.] This he might easily do, as Jesus Christ is professedly spoken of by the mouth of all the prophets, who had been since the world began. John v. 39. Luke i. 70. Acts iii. 18, 24. x. 43. Rom. i. 2. Accordingly He Himself began at Moses and all the Prophets, and expounded in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself; and said, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the Law of Moses, and in the Prophets and Psalms concerning Him-Luke xxiv. 27, 44. Acts xiii. 27, 29. In consequence the Apostles, preaching none other things than those which the Prophets and Moses did say should come, expounded and testified of the kingdom of God, persuading men concerning Jesus, both out of the Law of Moses, and the Prophets, from morning till evening. Acts xxvi. 22. xxviii. 23. . xvii. 23. xviii. 28.

5353. [Acts ix. 18.] The crystaline humour, when dried, doth manifestly enough appear to be made up of many very thin spherical laminæ, or scales lying one upon another.- See Lecuwenhoek's Cuts and Descriptions in Phil. Trans. No. 165, 293. DERHAM.

5354. [20.] Thus Paul, an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin, in the very heat of his zeal, was turned from being a persecutor of the godly to be a preacher of righteousness among Jews and Gentiles, to whom he was sent to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of satan to God, that they might receive forgiveness of sins and inheritance among them who are sanctified by faith in the Christ, Jesus. Case of the Jews, p. 15.

5357. [ 39.] The great art of moving is to oppose sensible objects to intellectual. The soul, in that case, takes a daring flight. It soars from the visible to the invisible, and enjoys itself, wherever it pleases, in the unbounded fields of sentiment and intellection. When a great man dies among the Tartars, his groom, after the interment, leads out the horse which his master was accustomed to ride, places the clothes which he used to wear on the horse's back, and walks him, in profound silence, before the assembly, who by that spectacle are melted into tears.

St. PIERRE'S Studies of Nature, vol. iii. p. 44.

5358. [Acts x. 10. A trance] A man is then reduced into a certain state which is between sleeping and waking. In this state he knows no other than that he is wide-awake; all his senses being as much awake as in the most perfect state of bodily wakefulness, both the sight and the hearing; and, what is wonderful, the touch, which is then more exquisite than it is possible for it to be in bodily wakefulness. In

this state, says SWEDENBORG from his own experience, spirits and angels were seen to the life, and were also heard; and, what is wonderful, were touched, and then scarce any thing of the body intervened. This is the state expressed by being taken away from the body (or by trance); and of which it is said by those who are in it, that they know not whether they are in the body or out of the body. Arcana, n. 1883.

5363. [Acts x. 44.] When in a Gentile's ignorance, there is innocence, and the tenderness of love, all the things appertaining to faith are received by him, as it were spontaneously, and with joy.

SWEDENBORG, Arcana, n. 2598.

5359. [Acts x. 11 → 16.] When angels are in affections (as their emanated spheres), and at the same time in discourse concerning them, then at the spirits in an inferior sphere such things fall into representative species of animals. When the discourse is concerning good affections, there are presented beautiful, mild and useful animals; such as in the representative Divine worship in the Jewish Church, were served up around the sacrifices, as (being vessels like) lambs, sheep, kids, she-goats, rams, he-goats, calves, bullocks, beeves. But the discourse of angels concerning evil affections is represented by beasts of a terrible aspect, fierce, and not useful (to man); as by tigers, bears, wolves, scorpions, serpents, mice, and the like.

5364. [Acts xi. 3.] The Smartal brahmins allow of no pardon for eating in company with persons of another caste, or of food dressed by their impure hands.

Dr. FRANCIS BUCHANAN, Governor-general of India.

5365. [ 19.] Antioch is the capital of Syria. TACITUS' Hist. b. v. ch. x.

5366.

Phenicia, bounded by Syria on the north and east, by Judea on the south, and by the Mediterranean ou the west, lies between the thirty-second and thirty-fifth degrees of north latitude.-On its coast are the famous cities of Sidon, Tyre, Aradus, Tripoli, Byblius, and Berytus. There were four different places in Phenicia, which bore the celebrated name of Tyre. (See Univer. Hist. vol. ii. pp. 294, 295, 296.) Antioch, the metropolis of Syria, was afterwards known by the name of Tetrapolis, being divided, as it were, into four cities, each of them having a proper wall, besides a common one which inclosed them all. The walls are still remaining; but as the houses are entirely destroyed, its four quarters look like so many enclosed fields. It is now a small and contemptible village known by the name of Anthakia, and remarkable for nothing but its ruins. Ibid. vol. viii. p. 443.

5361. [—————— 12, 28, 35.] By comparing these three verses we shall learn that the animal appearances in the vision, were the hieroglyphical characters of the whole Gentile world, civilized and uncivilized, Greeks and Barbarians. See Gen. ii. 7, 19, in the Note.

See No. 1347.

5362. [ 28.] During the first seven years after the death of Christ, the Gospel was preached to none but Jews. The Gentiles were unclean in the opinion of the Apostles, and not to be conversed with; till, in the eighth year, according to USHER and the best chronologers, this Cornelius became the first-fruits of the Pagan world.

5367. [21.] The Christians were wont, on a stated day, to meet together before it was light, and to sing a hymn. to Christ, as God, alternately; and to oblige themselves by a sacrament (or oath), not to do any thing that was ill, but that they would commit no theft, or pilfering, or adultery; that they would not break their promises, or deny what was deposited with them, when it was required back again. PLINY'S Letter to Trajan.

5368. [ 26.] None in the Christian church, at first, were ever called so much as by the name of an Apostle :

5378. [Acts xiii. 9.] Expositors suppose the Israelites, and other Eastern people, had several names: but this is an error. The reason of their being called by different names is, because they frequently change them, as they change in point of age, condition, or religion. (CHARDIN.)-Some, as Abraham and Sarah, were invariably called by the new name after it had been given them: others, as Peter and Paul, were called sometimes by the one, sometimes by the other, and occasionally by both joined together - as Simon Peter, John xiii. 6. XX. 2. xxi. 15.

5379. [20. About — four hundred and fifty years] That is, from the covenant with Abraham to the birth of Isaac was one year; from Isaac to the birth of Jacob, sixty years; thence to the going down into Egypt, 130; thence to their return, 210; thence to the entrance into Canaan, 40; thence to the division of the land, 7 years; and thence to the appointment of the Judges after the 7 years' residence in Canaan, at least one year: In all 449,- about, as Paul says, 450 years, when the Judges that continued till Samuel were first appointed.

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Paul preached to them the WORD OF GOD, or he preached to them CHRIST (Acts ix. 20), as James says, Moses is preached in the synagogues every sabbath-day, Acts xv. 21. The fact is this: every law and every prophecy, whether in the Old or in the New Testament, were distinctly delivered, as one man speaks to another, by the Logos, the Shechinah, the Christ; when therefore any thing so SPOKEN was preached or expounded, THE WORD was preached. See John v. 39. Acts ii, 4. x. 36-38. And 1 Sam. iii. 1-7, respecting the revealing or manifesting this WORD of the Lord.

5382. [Acts xiv. 23.] Though the word here be cheirotonesantes (Grk.), yet it signifieth not election by holding up of hands, but simply and absolutely ordination. For the ordinary choosing of magistrates amongst the Grecians, who were all either popularly governed, or else by oligarchy, being performed by holding up of hands, made that word be taken simply, for au election or ordination, howsoever made. HOBBS's Tripos, De Corpore Politico, p. 224.

the religious sense of the word, commit fornication; and should they revert to the corruptions of Judaism, or other exploded ceremonies of the prior dispensations, they would in that case, spiritually commit adultery with a Church that had been espoused by a former Shechiuab.

5386. [Acts xv. 20-29.] How this injunction is to be understood, we see from various parts of the Epistles of Paul, especially from Rom. xv and 1 Cor. viii and x. The propositions which he lays down are these:

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1. Idol-offerings, eaten in an idol-temple, or at an idolbanquet, form a participation in idolatrous worship. But, 2. Exclusively of this case, it is lawful to eat idol-offerings; for the idol is a nonentity, and has no property; for every thing on the face of the carth, even the idol-offering itself, belongs to the True God.

3. Yet ought we, for the sake of the weak, to abstain from eating of any such offering, if they are thereby scandalized, and tell us for warning, that it is an idoloffering. Smith's MICHAELIS, vol. iv. p. 36.

5383.

Antiently, when superintendent priests cr bishops were to be elected, the members of the Church assembled collectively, and chose some one person, some another; but that it might appear whose suffrage won, the electors used ekteinein tas cheiras (Grk.), to stretch forth their hands, and by their hands so stretched forth or up, they were numbered who chose the one and who the other. And him who was elected by the greatest number of suffrages or votes, they placed, in the high-priesthood, that is, made him bishop. It was from this circumstance that the Fathers of the first Christian Councils are found to have called their suffrage Cheirotonia (Grk.).

See ZONARAS, in his Scholia on the first Canon of the Apostles. Also KNATCHBULL, in loco.

5388.

BERNIER. See Pinkerton, vol. viii. pp. 155, 637, &c.

The various Sects of the Japanese, though much divided in other respects, all agree in observing the five following maxims or precepts. 1. Not to kill, nor to eat any thing that is killed. 2. Not to steal. 3. Not to defile another man's bed. 4. Not to lie; and, 5. Not to drink wine.— Their chief food consists of rice, pulse, fruits, roots and herbs; but mostly of rice, which they have in great plenty and perfection, and which they dress in so many different ways, and give to it such a variety of tastes, flavor and color, that a stranger would hardly know what he were eating. And their chief liquor at meals is water made a little warm; but as soon as they have dined or supped, thev drink a pretty large quantity of tea, which they use as their common drink or refreshment, whenever they are thirsty, weary, or faint. They affect a surprising neatness and decency in their eating, drinking, furniture, dress and conversation; but have an abhorrence of intemperance, luxury, and defamation. They are all very industrious and laborious; and being much given to study and reading, they are generally very acute, and of a quick apprehension, good understanding