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Show r-;o Of Chiltn and Rempha11. LIB. IV. Mercy feat: fo had the devil his sacro1 tripodar, his Oracles, from which he would fpenk unto them that ferved him.. This folemn proceffion was performed "S~lil b~_,'J.,e by the Romans in the honour-of the* Sun • . It was ~~;";:a~';,~~:' performed by the Ifraelites in honour of their llloloch, Antiq~ti dixe~e who formerly was interpreted , the sun. To add unto - :;;;,~; .• ~~;~: the pomp and fiate of thi£ fo lemaity, both the Ro. 1 7• vi.Demp/f. man1 and the Ifraelites caufed great Horfe s and Chari ... x. Alex. abA/ex. ots to be led up and down. ( x) Horfes were confecra• ltb 3· cap 12, te d tot he Sun b y t he Romans, an d t he l.f C1. rque place was fometimes called 7a ;~,.tx.ov, and i 'Jf'?ro~eh.uov , an Horfe· race. And that chariots was commonly ufed jn ., Hit i/Uru ar· thofe pompoUil fbewes is (J') evident. Concerning the m~, H~c ~urru1 people of Judah, doth not the like practice plainly ap~~ id~~:grl./.E.• pear? 2 Kittgs 2 3. Jojiab did put down the HoifeJ given to the sun, and the chariots of the Sun. This .kind of Idolatrous wodhiptJing the Sun feemeth to have had its beginning fron1 the Petjians, who alfo acz c~l. Ithoi;g, counted Horfes holy to the Sun: ( z) And the Petjian anltq.l.S.c,~. King, when he would fbe\v himfelf in great fiate, caufed an exceeding great Hoife to be led up and down, the which was called Equm folis. The fecund inquiry is, What Idol was meant by ChiNn and Rempban , otherwife in ancient Copies called Reph~tm. Not to trouble the Reader with the various interpretations of Expojitors, m1ach Iefs with the bold adventures of others in correcting the text: by C hiHN we are to underftand Hert:ules, who in the Egyptian language was called chon: by Repbam we are to underftand the fame Hercules, for O"N~1 Rephaim, in the holy tongue fignifieth G1ant: By Hercules we may underfi:and the Planet oft he sun: There are EtJ• mologifts that derive HercHles his name from· the He· brew ,J ,Nn, Hiercol, iduminavit owni~: the Greeft · (a) Etj· LIB. IV. Of '11111JIJZ. r 51 (a) Etymology, holds correfpondency with the Hehrew a !feradeJ q~id and both fignifie that univerfal light which floweth a,jtud efl,%;_am c1 rom the c c • Ad h neg.~ JC.ll.£~ Sun as water ,rom a tountain. d ereun• (i • .J aeri1 g/rJ-to~ that (b) Porphyry interpreteth Hercules his twelve ri~: q;, e P1rro Ia b o 1u·s .. r1 0 otc..c en mentt· one d by t he Poets .. to b e no• ah:t eft aeru 1;r:p. 1· ·u - • ., .1 71 'JI !l IJ I llm1· thtng elfe but the twelve {ignJ of the ZodiacJt, thorow natiol Macr~h. which the Sun paifeth yearly. But fome may quefti .. Sarur.l.r.c. 20• f 1 b Ew{eb. de on, whether the name o Hercutel was ever known tO -Pr.tp.t,3.c.4.p. J the Jews? It is probable the nam~ was ; for Hercules 7 r .. was the god of the 1)ria11s) from whom the Jews learn.., ed much Idolatry, as being their near Neighbo urs: Yea, it is apparent~- that in the time of the Maccttbee.r the name was commonly known unto them :for Jafon the High·Prieft Cent three hundred drachmei of filver to the facrifice of HercnleJ, 2 Mac.4, 19 . . Thirdly, it followeth tha~ ~e iliould enquire, what th1s flar of Remphan was, It Is probably (c) thought c Oecllmenilu that it was a certain .ftar painted in the forehead of Al/•7•43• lVlolech; Neither was it unufual for the Heathen peo,- ple to paint their Ido!J with fuch Symbolica .Addita· d . 1 (d) J l 0 ~ h. I . d fl sweton mJR • menta. 11 itu Cdjar ts mage ha a ar depicted· t.as.rr. Plin. on the crown of his 6ead. hi/f.J. 2.c.-;; s . The Sun was alfo wodbipped by the houfe of :'::ar. l. 1 ' od. J~tdah, under the name Tttmuz; for (e) Tamurz, faith e Hiero~. com. Ilierom, was .Adonis, and (f) AdfJnk is generally in. tpe~'3 8'".E~t~ d S ~ h b , ItT. leYOI. I• terprete t ,le ttn , rrom t e He rew Adon, fign1fytng 1.9. p. 68. Dom.inFu, the fame as Baal, or Jl;foloch forme rly did, Qaniely, t he Lord or Pnn.ee of the Planet.r. The month. which w; ca l, June, was by the HebrewJ called Ta· muz. ; and t he eotrance of the S~tn into the fign CanceY' was, in th Jew.r Afironomy, termed Tel{~tpha. Tam11z th.:: revollttion ofTamuz. Concerning A.donh \Vhom fom etime anc-1ent Authors called ojiril ; the-re are two things remarkable, C:.'"·''a-~~~~ the death. or loft tJj |
