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Glmrclij which alsa have their relations to the company of an- 

 gels. I allude to the first vision in tlie Apocalypse, and the ex- 

 planation of thef mystery of " the seven stars and the seven 

 " golden candlesticks" — it is thus given. " The seven stars are 

 " the angels of the seven churches." In a similar manner, the che- 

 ruhim of tlie same temple, and the emblems of the starry sphere 

 which appeared to Ezekiel, and which bore their similitude, were 

 types at once of the church, and of the " milleni pacificorum" 

 in the Heavens. 



The next text which I shall quote, to prove the connexion 



between the Cherubim and the sphere, will, while it aflFords [us 



demonstration thereof, present to us a new view of the subject. 



The| 28th chapter of Ezekiel contains a denunciation against 



the Prince of Tyrus, by whom, as is evident from the context, 



and from the 31st chapter of the same Prophet, was symbolised 



Adam, or mankind in general. The words are — " thou hast 



" been in Eden ;" " every precious stone was thy covering ;" 



*' Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of 



" fire ;" " Thou art the anointed Cherub ;" " and I will destroy 



" thee, O covering Cherub, from the midst of the stones of 



" fire." Here we find the Cherub to be the type of fallen man, 



him to whom, under the same type, the divine mercy afterwards 



promises forgiveness of his sins ; and, in these texts, we can 



particularly trace the connexion, which we have elsewhere sug- 



^ Revel. 1.20 — I cannot here omit the ingenious interpretation given by the learned Vice 

 Provost to the words that we construe shew-bread — Lehim Phanim signify, literally, the bread 

 of faces ; these he supposes to be analogous to the faces of the signs. Alluding to the sub- 

 division of the Zodiac into 3 faces to each sign, which is well knowQ to have been the Rab- 

 binical division — each face had 10 deaconB, 360 in all j agreeable to the number of degrees. 



I Particularly Ver. 15. 



