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down of the sun ; whence the Amalekites were totally routed and put to flight . In commemoration of this -victory , Moses reared an altar , and called it JEHOVAH-nissi , because it had been divinel y communicated to him , that , as it is forcibly expressed by the lawgiver in the oriinal of Exodus xvii 16—God had
g . , " sworn , " said he , placing his hand on the throne of . ( here Moses uses the mysterious word on the Foundation Stone ) , « that he would wage war against the Amalekites till he had utterly destroyed them . " And this was accordingly accomplished to the very letter . Amalek was a powerful and warlike nation , capable at this time of maintaining an
ascendancy amongst the neighbouring states ; but the name is now blotted out from under heaven . The people do not exist who claim their descent from the Amalekites . Saul gave them the first heavy blow , and David succeeded in completing their destruction . The same Stone is said to have been in requisition when Moses appeared before the Almighty on Mount Sinai to
receive the Decalogue . Here he fell down on his knees in an agony of fear , when the majesty of God was manifested in a dense cloud , illuminated by flashes of brilliant light , and the appearance of a bright consuming fire , which burned on the top of the mountain , " to the midst of heaven , " accompanied by terrific thunderings and the sound of
angelic trumpets . These appearances , which indicated the divine presence , were introduced with such ceremony of preparation , that boundary marks were set round about the mountain , and the penalty of death attached to the crime of passing the sacred barrier , with the intention of intruding uncalled into the of GodIn this situationthe
presence . , Deity condescended to converse with Moses face to face ; and all the people heard the gracious words that issued from him , to the number , as is conjectured b y Tostatus and others , of three millions of souls ; and this great congregation , which must have been spread over a space of several miles , distinctly heard and understood the voice that spake unto them
. " Proportionata , " says Cardinal Cajetan , " erat tarn propinguis , quam distantibus auditoribus . " Rupertus , and other writers , make this stone to be a symbol of the grace of the Gospel , because it was used by Moses on that memorable occasion , when the brazen ser-
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On Freemasonry. Evidences, Doctrines, And Traditions.
down of the sun ; whence the Amalekites were totally routed and put to flight . In commemoration of this -victory , Moses reared an altar , and called it JEHOVAH-nissi , because it had been divinel y communicated to him , that , as it is forcibly expressed by the lawgiver in the oriinal of Exodus xvii 16—God had
g . , " sworn , " said he , placing his hand on the throne of . ( here Moses uses the mysterious word on the Foundation Stone ) , « that he would wage war against the Amalekites till he had utterly destroyed them . " And this was accordingly accomplished to the very letter . Amalek was a powerful and warlike nation , capable at this time of maintaining an
ascendancy amongst the neighbouring states ; but the name is now blotted out from under heaven . The people do not exist who claim their descent from the Amalekites . Saul gave them the first heavy blow , and David succeeded in completing their destruction . The same Stone is said to have been in requisition when Moses appeared before the Almighty on Mount Sinai to
receive the Decalogue . Here he fell down on his knees in an agony of fear , when the majesty of God was manifested in a dense cloud , illuminated by flashes of brilliant light , and the appearance of a bright consuming fire , which burned on the top of the mountain , " to the midst of heaven , " accompanied by terrific thunderings and the sound of
angelic trumpets . These appearances , which indicated the divine presence , were introduced with such ceremony of preparation , that boundary marks were set round about the mountain , and the penalty of death attached to the crime of passing the sacred barrier , with the intention of intruding uncalled into the of GodIn this situationthe
presence . , Deity condescended to converse with Moses face to face ; and all the people heard the gracious words that issued from him , to the number , as is conjectured b y Tostatus and others , of three millions of souls ; and this great congregation , which must have been spread over a space of several miles , distinctly heard and understood the voice that spake unto them
. " Proportionata , " says Cardinal Cajetan , " erat tarn propinguis , quam distantibus auditoribus . " Rupertus , and other writers , make this stone to be a symbol of the grace of the Gospel , because it was used by Moses on that memorable occasion , when the brazen ser-