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On Symbols And Symbolism.
our readers to find Mount Ararat mentioned by name in heathen Avritings , as the spot on Avhich the ark rested . In the Sibylline books , edit , of Galseius , lib . i . p . 152 , are verses to the following effect : — " Midst Phrygia ' s stony plains a mountain is placed , Lofty raised , and wide spread out , which Ararat ' s called ; Thence the Marsyas springs : that powerful river ; And on the top of that high-rais'd hill stood the ark still , When the flood disappeared . "
We may therefore now enter on the subject of the medal Ave haA r e mentioned , and confine ourselves to one specimen ; for though there exist nine similar types , yet so many have been pronounced forgeries , that we merely refer to one formerly in the royal cabinet of France , and noAv possibly in the Imperial Museum at Paris , which Avas minutely criticized by the Abbe
Barthelemy , at the request of Mr . Coombe , and pronounced genuine . The reverse , then , is in tAvo parts ; in the first , tAvo figures are enclosed in an ark or chest , sustained by stout posts at the corners , and well timbered throughout ; on the side are letters ; on the top is a clove ; in front , the same tAvo figures which Ave see in the ark are represented as come out and
departing from their late receptacle ; hovering over them is a dove Avith a sprig in its bill . This medal , therefore , clearly implies a deliverance by a vessel from the dangers by Avater ; and , coupled Avith the other concordances , the plunder of the earliest heathen myths by a perversion , to fit them to the
futilities of heathen relations . It is supposed this medal Avas struck at Apamea , and on it Ave have an express treatise ( De Numo Apamensi Deucalionei Diluvii typum exhibente , printed in Gronovius' Antiq . Gr £ eca 3 , x . p . 678 ) ; but as the ancient name of Apamea was ia / 3 ajr ?? e , which Ave have already seen signified " ark , " this name may refer to some connection at their
foundation Avith the ark , Avhich Ave cannot UOAV fathom . It is a somewhat cognate symbol and easy transition from the ark to a ship in full and easy sail , steering through the difficulties of events to the destined haven of bliss . Representations under this type are also frequent ; and in A'erse we have lines from Venantius Fortunatus , which are somewhat to the purpose ,
though in most wretched style : — " Opto per hos fhictus animam tu , Christe , gubernas Arbore et antenna ? velificante crucis : At post emensps mundani gurgitis sestus , In portum vita nos tua dextra locet . " We have mentioned the richness of synonym and designation " by Avhich Christ Avas lauded in the Eastern Avorld ; and the foi-
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On Symbols And Symbolism.
our readers to find Mount Ararat mentioned by name in heathen Avritings , as the spot on Avhich the ark rested . In the Sibylline books , edit , of Galseius , lib . i . p . 152 , are verses to the following effect : — " Midst Phrygia ' s stony plains a mountain is placed , Lofty raised , and wide spread out , which Ararat ' s called ; Thence the Marsyas springs : that powerful river ; And on the top of that high-rais'd hill stood the ark still , When the flood disappeared . "
We may therefore now enter on the subject of the medal Ave haA r e mentioned , and confine ourselves to one specimen ; for though there exist nine similar types , yet so many have been pronounced forgeries , that we merely refer to one formerly in the royal cabinet of France , and noAv possibly in the Imperial Museum at Paris , which Avas minutely criticized by the Abbe
Barthelemy , at the request of Mr . Coombe , and pronounced genuine . The reverse , then , is in tAvo parts ; in the first , tAvo figures are enclosed in an ark or chest , sustained by stout posts at the corners , and well timbered throughout ; on the side are letters ; on the top is a clove ; in front , the same tAvo figures which Ave see in the ark are represented as come out and
departing from their late receptacle ; hovering over them is a dove Avith a sprig in its bill . This medal , therefore , clearly implies a deliverance by a vessel from the dangers by Avater ; and , coupled Avith the other concordances , the plunder of the earliest heathen myths by a perversion , to fit them to the
futilities of heathen relations . It is supposed this medal Avas struck at Apamea , and on it Ave have an express treatise ( De Numo Apamensi Deucalionei Diluvii typum exhibente , printed in Gronovius' Antiq . Gr £ eca 3 , x . p . 678 ) ; but as the ancient name of Apamea was ia / 3 ajr ?? e , which Ave have already seen signified " ark , " this name may refer to some connection at their
foundation Avith the ark , Avhich Ave cannot UOAV fathom . It is a somewhat cognate symbol and easy transition from the ark to a ship in full and easy sail , steering through the difficulties of events to the destined haven of bliss . Representations under this type are also frequent ; and in A'erse we have lines from Venantius Fortunatus , which are somewhat to the purpose ,
though in most wretched style : — " Opto per hos fhictus animam tu , Christe , gubernas Arbore et antenna ? velificante crucis : At post emensps mundani gurgitis sestus , In portum vita nos tua dextra locet . " We have mentioned the richness of synonym and designation " by Avhich Christ Avas lauded in the Eastern Avorld ; and the foi-