158 Dr. Kennedy Bailie's Researches amongst the inscribed Monuments, Sfc. 



rendering them more valueless as schools of taste and design, which are every 

 hour depriving them of their attractiveness in the eyes of the mere architect, or 

 the mere virtuoso, are, in those of the reader of and believer in the Bible, en- 

 hancing their interest. The gorgeous ruins of the city of Diana, the desolated 

 courts and shrines of Laodicea, the dethroned " Sardian Queen," address his 

 heart with eloquence immeasurably more touching and more sublime than they 

 could have done in the fulness of their beauty and magnificence. It is their 

 position on the threshold of those prophecies which announce the events and de- 

 velop the destinies of a better and higher than a mere political world : it is the 

 Spirit quenched, the Candlestick removed, the Hour of retribution, the utter 

 Rejection, which come home to his heart, imperishable monuments as they are of 

 the righteous dealing, the truth, the providence of God. 



ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA. 



Page 123, line 18, for itpofivia readUpoiirjvia. 



137, — 21, for legislature react legislation. 



— 138, — 23, for makes read malte. 



Note on Page 147, Line 19. 



I have expressed the last of the Greek numerals, in this inscription, by 2, which is the letter 

 approaching nearest to the form in the original. But, accurately speaking, not 2, but 2T ((rrr), 

 is the representative of 6 in the Greek notation. 



The engraver of the titulus had, I feel persuaded, the last of these in view : and the reader will 

 please to supply it in the note on the fifteenth line at mark f, or read the numerals thus, ^^fW. 



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