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and, therefore, while we admit those images of the Apostle's vi- 

 sion to represent the children of Judah, and Ezekiel's to represent 

 the stars, we must allow the Cherubim to be a kindred symbol with 

 the constellations, and also to bear a reference to the emblems of the 

 tribes — and this so much the more, as the images in both visions are 

 similaily employed, in pouring forth their hymns of praise ; the one 

 to the Lamb of God, the other to our Saviour, in that form in which 

 he is expected to appear as the Judge of mankind— Precisely similar 

 to the scope of these texts, is that picture of the aiitient of days 

 which we find in the prophecies of Daniel. " His throne* was 

 " like the fiery flames, and his wheels as burning fire." From all 

 these texts, therefore, it appears manifest, that this sublime cha- 

 riot, or throne of God, bears that exact relation to the " glory of 

 " the Lord,"-]- which the Cherubim in the Jewish Tabernacle did 

 to the Shechinah, or Divine presence therein. To pass by seve- 

 ral texts which abound to support this connexion, I shall parti- 

 cularly observe upon two which occur in tlie 68th Psalm. 



This Hymn was composed upon " tlie removing of the ark. 

 Mede|| has remarked, that St. Jerome, in his translation of the 

 10th verse, has expressed the words which we render thus, " Thy 

 " congregation shall dwell therein," by the following, " animalia 

 " tua habitabunt in ea." Another Latin translation^ has it, " bes- 

 " tia tua," and, as a conjectural second reading, " coetus tua :" 

 the original also signifies, " army." Here then we have the Israe- 



»Chap. 7. 9. 



f Ezek. a. 23—8. 4— and 10. 18— Heb. 9. 5—2 Sam. G. 2, &c. 



II See Horsley on the Psalms in loc. lie sajs these verses " refer to a choice of a place for 

 " the temple, and the display of the Divine glory in the sanctuari/.'' 

 §. By Everard Vander Hooght. 



