Collated with parallel Passages of the Hebrew Scriptures. 55 



Respecting the latter clause — mnucoth, has been explained in the Precog- 

 nition, under the head of Duplicates, n"inO!a?a» ex cedibus, equivalent of the 

 Latin, /om*. Before this word stands j/sV (m*) ^i^]:}^, percontabor, " J will 

 ask, inquire;" after it lu^im a'>?'7> " egredientes, qui egrediuntur" the persons 

 departing.^ 



Punic and Libyan Phraseology respecting the Tessera explicated. 

 Deum Hospitalem ac tesseram mecum fei'o, 



^:i iiiyD nt vn i'jn ty-ip in^ n:3nN? n*"- 



Yth emeneth yhi chers cell chok zth nasu bi. 



Signum veritatis erit tabula, (Deus mens inscription hcec allata mecum. 



Yth tese anechi nasocti lu\-\ cbU co\ 



Signum occultum egometfero — tabulam {Deus mens inscriptio.} 



The Tessera Hospitalis, the subject of the eighth verse, may be defined as 

 follows : Signum veritatis, tabula cui Deus inscriptio. Adopting this defi- 

 nition, the Latin verse may be thus paraphrased : Signum veritatis erit tabula 

 cui Deus inscriptio, which rendered literally into Hebrew-Chaldee, will give 

 the above Punic heading, (except the three last words.) The Libyan variation 

 in the description occult (Chaldee Niyto) is very significant and interesting. For 

 tablet, the synonimy of Plantevich and the Hebrew Bible, including the Chaldee 

 and Syriac versions, give the synonimes U^'ip, cheres, niS luhh, and {v^gi dapa. 

 ly^p, cheres, the word used by Hanno, occurs in Exodus, xxvi. 18, and Ezekiel, 

 xxvii. 6, in the latter as an ivory table : and ^r^-\ and niS dapa and luhh, its 

 equivalent and convertible terms, are used in the Syriac Testament, (John xix. 

 19,20,) for the titXos, the inscribed tablet affixed to the cross. The synonime 

 for tablet, luhh, pronounced, or rather spelled, li, as jTi|, sith, mature considera- 

 tion leads me to conclude is what is signified by the word li in the Libyan of 

 this verse, rather than li, mecum, along with me.X 



* Im, DN = equidem — nunc. f Proverbs, iii. 21. iv. 21, 



J It is submitted, that Bochart's word, "IV3, does not ever signify a picture or figure in any 



