The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . art of it which is out of the field,may be seen Herculess dog, and the shell from whichthe famous Tyrian purple was extracted; whichappears to have been of different kinds, principallybelonging to the genera Mureoc and Buccinum; forTyrian coins seem to represent different shells. Thelegend of the discovery of this imperial dye will bereadily recalled to mind. It was imparted to the lipsof a dog which had devoured the shell-fish on theshore: the purple stain being accidentally observ
The truth of revelation : demonstrated by an appeal to existing monuments, sculptures, gems, coins, and medals . art of it which is out of the field,may be seen Herculess dog, and the shell from whichthe famous Tyrian purple was extracted; whichappears to have been of different kinds, principallybelonging to the genera Mureoc and Buccinum; forTyrian coins seem to represent different shells. Thelegend of the discovery of this imperial dye will bereadily recalled to mind. It was imparted to the lipsof a dog which had devoured the shell-fish on theshore: the purple stain being accidentally observed byhis master. The annexed is a coin of Athensassociated with the same principlesof mythological belief. The ser-pent god, the ^(pvYis of the gnostics,represented a human figure unitedwith the serpent. In Egypt theserpent called Thermuthis crowned --^-^iifi- the tiaras and surmounted the statues of I sis. Ophiola-try commenced in Chaldea and from thence passedinto Egypt. Hence the worship of demons or devils,nagas,or snake gods, and thus satan, the princeof darkness, is called the old serpent. Pauls allu-. 201 sion to the cup of devils is easily understood, fromtlie cup of libation we see on bas reliefs on bronze,and on coins, as presented to serpents. The worshipof devils is referred to in the Pentateuch, and seemsthus connected with the tempter: • They sacrifice todevils and not to In the Orphic hymns a lionand a serpent are celebrated. The guardian of theAcropolis of Athens was a serpent, and hence too,perhaps, the origin of winged serpents and worship is two-fold. In the demon worship,it has evidently to do with the personification of evil,in the tragedy of Eden ; and when associated with soter and salus, and a symbol connected with Escu-lapius, it as clearly refers to the brazen serpent rearedby Moses in the wilderness. Dcut. xxxii. 17. CHAPTER VIII. THE DELUGE—PAGAN TRADITION—GEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE-NATURAL CHRONOMETERS. Pagan tradition proclaims
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