. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. od himself. But thesacred writers have employed, in truth, the same terms toJehovah, that the Egyptians did to their false gods. In thishowever, there would be nothing inconsistent with entrance to the temple was on the side facing the river, towhich an avenue of sphinxes also led from the Nile and wascontinued on the western side of the river. On the front of th
. Voices from the Orient; or, The testimony of the monuments, of the recent historical and topographical discoveries, and of the customs and traditions of the people in the Orient, to the veracity of the sacred record. od himself. But thesacred writers have employed, in truth, the same terms toJehovah, that the Egyptians did to their false gods. In thishowever, there would be nothing inconsistent with entrance to the temple was on the side facing the river, towhich an avenue of sphinxes also led from the Nile and wascontinued on the western side of the river. On the front of thepylon is seen the orb of the sun, with wings, and the serpent,the visible symbol of the great god of the Thebans. Thissymbol seems to contain at least these ideas, that Ra is thecreator of life, and the serpent is the symbol of his wisdomand royalty, while the wings denote his protection to his Egyptian worshipper who entered into the temple passedunder that mysterious symbol. Ashur, the god of Assyria, wassymbolized by the figure of a man with wings, rising out of awheel. Is this symbol a common heritage of the ancient racesby which they attempted to give material existence to the - 5. 150 THEBES AND ITS SPLENDID MONUMENTS. unsearchable God ? Or is it not rather the faint outline of thestatement in Genesis regarding the presence of Jehovah andthe cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and which hadbeen preserved in the consciousness and life of the race afterthe lapse of centuries and amid great national changes andextensive migrations. The cherubim over the mercy seat inthe holy of holies were connected with the Shekinah, thepresence of Jehovah. The cherubim shall stretch forth theirwines on high, and there I will meet with thee.* The cheru-bim of Ezekiel were connected with wheels, and each cherubhad four faces, that of a man, a lion, an ox and an in Egypt the sphinxes that formed the avenues to thetemples or that stood near them, had wings, and
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