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Zodiac in Genesis,* Job,-f- and Ezekiel, of which more hereafter. 

 The discovery of its deUneation in the temples of the upper 

 JEgypt gives it an acknowledged existence of above 4000 years 

 from the present, and traces as antient have been discovered iti 

 Hindostan.|| Since, therefore, people so remote As the Hindoos., 

 the Jews, and the Egyptians ; people too so long disjoined from 

 a common stock, and, what is yet more material, of religious creeds 

 so different and irreconcileable, possessed remnants of this great 

 hieroglyphic so similar, as almost to be the same ; we must con- 

 clude that it is of an antiquity coeval with the time of their first 

 separation. 



But to proceed, a remarkable part of the beautiful history of 

 Joseph enables us to connect the Zodiacal signs with the family of 

 Judah. I allude to his dream, which it will be necessary here 

 minutely to examine. Joseph is related to have addressed his 

 brethren thus,| " Behold, I have dreamed a dream ,• and behold, 

 " the sun and moon, and the eleven stars made obeisance to 

 " me:" the jealousy with which they hear this narration is so 

 great, that it afterwards tempted them to resolve almost unani- 

 mously, to put the dreamer, although he was their brother, to 

 death ; — a jealousy which proved, that there was something in 

 the vision which was prophetic of disaster to themselves, and 



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• C. 37. 9. 

 t C. 22. 14. 



:j; Denon's Travels, and Brit. Rev. No. 17. p. H6. 



II Maurice's Hist, ot Hind, and also his Ruins of Bab. p. 76.212, &c. Barret. Faber, 

 Asiatic Res. V. 2. xxvii. Antiq. Devoilee, & Brit. Bev. ubi supra. 

 § Gen. 37. 9, &c. 



