The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Silver Shekel, and Coin of Simon Bar-cochab. Strnck A. D. 131-134. Obv. Simon. Tetrastyle temple; above, a star. (The name Bar-cochab signifies the Son of a Star.) Cavedoni thinks the temple is the Sacrarium ol a Jewishsynagogue; the middle being the aron, or ark holding the rolls ol the sacred books. Rev. Lacheruth Jerusalem, The Deliverance of Jerusalem, Elhrog and Lulab. The Reverse of the smaller coin shown above bears the same inscription aroundtwo trumpets. (British Museum.) The two trumpets doubtless were in remem-b
The Bible hand-book: an introduction to the study of Sacred Scripture . Silver Shekel, and Coin of Simon Bar-cochab. Strnck A. D. 131-134. Obv. Simon. Tetrastyle temple; above, a star. (The name Bar-cochab signifies the Son of a Star.) Cavedoni thinks the temple is the Sacrarium ol a Jewishsynagogue; the middle being the aron, or ark holding the rolls ol the sacred books. Rev. Lacheruth Jerusalem, The Deliverance of Jerusalem, Elhrog and Lulab. The Reverse of the smaller coin shown above bears the same inscription aroundtwo trumpets. (British Museum.) The two trumpets doubtless were in remem-brance of the command of Moses, that their sounding was to be the signal ofthe departure of the camp. (Numbers x. 1 ; 1 Mace. xvi. 8.) The Romans alsostruck coins celebrating the defeat of the Jews; among them the Obv. HADRIANVS AVG. COS. III. P. P. Bust to the right, bare, with palu-damenlum (military dress) and cuirass. Rev. ADVENTI. AUG. IVDAEAE. Hadrian standing before a female (Juda?a),who holds a patera (a drinkiug-plate) and a box ; between them a burning altar; oneither side of the female a child holding a palm ; behind altar a bull; below S. C. DANIEL—PREDICTIONS. 561 fourth is divided, three are subdued by a little horn, or the papalpower, ver. 8. That power (of which we read again subsequently)exercises its tyranny for 1260 years, and then comes the triumph ofthe saints. This view of the four empires has special reference to theirreligious connexions, as the former view had to their political. In chap. viii. we have the history of the Medo-Persian and Grecianempires, beginning with Cyrus and Alexander: the ram with two horns,the one greater than the other, representing the Persian and Mediandynasty, with its conquests, ver. 4, and overthrow by Alexander, thenotable horn: his conque
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