. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. sents Zeus under that aspect—as tutelary or guardian deity(Jupiter Custos)—in which he was worshipped by the Lys- 280 FOUTY-EJGHTH WEEK trians. Their image of him, to which they found a resem-blance in Barnabas, must have been like this. Having con-cluded that Barnabas was Jupiter, it was easy to conceive thatPaul was Mercurius, the Hermes ofthe Greeks. And the reason is, in thisinstance, given.
. Daily Bible illustrations : being original readings for a year, on subjects from sacred history, biography, georgaphy, antiquities, and theology : Especially designed for the family circle. sents Zeus under that aspect—as tutelary or guardian deity(Jupiter Custos)—in which he was worshipped by the Lys- 280 FOUTY-EJGHTH WEEK trians. Their image of him, to which they found a resem-blance in Barnabas, must have been like this. Having con-cluded that Barnabas was Jupiter, it was easy to conceive thatPaul was Mercurius, the Hermes ofthe Greeks. And the reason is, in thisinstance, given. It is, Because he wasthe chief speaker; and probably, also,because, as Mercury was the messengerof the gods, and particularly of Jupiter,it might be naturally concluded that itwas he who now appeared in his com-pany. In fact, notwithstanding theactive prominence of his friend, theseLystrians seem throughout to assignthe superior place to Barnabas, prob-ably not only on account of Pauls comparatively insignificantbodily presence, but from conceiving that he, as Mercury, mayhave been acting and speaking instrumentally for Jupiter, asit was often his vocation to do. Mercury, as every one knows,was, in his higher quality, the god of eloquence ; and, in hislower quality, was the frequent companion of Jupiter in hisrambles upon the
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