The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . eople of the island seem to have expected, from thevirulence of this deadly reptile, that he should haveswollen, or fallen down dead suddenly; and it wasobserved by them, no doubt this man is a murderer,whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeancesuffereth not to live. In their view of it, Isis hadsent her avenger, the asp, (which is often associatedwith her,) to take vengeance on the criminal. Whenthey saw, however, no harm come to him, they changedtheir minds, and said, he
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . eople of the island seem to have expected, from thevirulence of this deadly reptile, that he should haveswollen, or fallen down dead suddenly; and it wasobserved by them, no doubt this man is a murderer,whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeancesuffereth not to live. In their view of it, Isis hadsent her avenger, the asp, (which is often associatedwith her,) to take vengeance on the criminal. Whenthey saw, however, no harm come to him, they changedtheir minds, and said, he was a god. He had thusshewn, that he defied the vengeance of Isis, and con-sequently was superior to their goddess. This seems,we think, a simple and obvious solution. When thedisciples received their commission from JesusChrist, it was promised them, that no deadly thingshould have power to hurt them. Death almost imme-diately follows the wound inflicted by some venomousserpents—such as the tic polonga. In 2 Cor. xi. 32, it is stated, that in Damascus,the governor, under Aretas the king, kept the city of. 367 the Damascenes with a garrison. We give a fac-simileof a coin of Damascus, on which this very name occursas the king. The word, *iaeaahno£,we may suppose, refers to his attach-ment to the Helenistic Jews, whichmay be inferred from his anxiety toapprehend Paul. If, however, theletters a p, are to be considered asindicating the date, and to be calculated from the eraof the Seleucidse, it must be 160 A. C. This, however,is an unsettled point; and it suffices us to know, thatthere were several kings of Damascus of this have two silver denarii; on one of these is rexARETAS, and represented in the woodcut. A supplianthas alighted from a dromedary, and is presenting anolive branch. On the other is the name Bacchius,with similar accompaniments. In the Maccabees 5, we find mention is made of Aretas, king ofthe Arabians, before whom Jason was accused, A. M
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