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describes him as ouQega vaiuv, and calls him Zei/f 

 and Ennius appeals to him in these terms, 



Aspice hoc sublime candens quern invocant omnes 

 Jovem. 



And to live abroad is to live sub Jove, sub Dio. It is 

 evident that these Gods were subsequent to Chaos, and 

 sprung from that motion of the Spirit which first gave 

 birth to this world as we behold it; besides these, the sun, 

 moon, planets, earth, ocean, &c. made part of the cata- 

 logue of false Gods whom the Heathens worshipped and 

 served instead of the Creator. These powers, which were 

 originally reverenced as symbols and representatives of the 

 Godhead, and, as it were, his vicegerents in Nature, in 

 process of time were thus regarded and adored as the 

 supreme and only God the sign instead of the thing sig- 

 nified the instrument instead of the hand that guided 

 it the work instead of the workman. They deemed, as 

 the author of the Book of Wisdom observes, 1 Either fire, 

 or wind, or the swift air, or the circle of the stars, or the 

 violent water, or the lights of heaven, to be the Gods which 

 govern the world. 



Veneration and love to those from whose actions or 

 studies we derive great benefit, and respect for our an- 

 cestors, amiable motives when they do not lead us away 

 from God, often induce mankind to throw a kind of 

 Divinity, a ray of glory, around such persons ; first, 

 perhaps, they are complimented with the title of suns of 

 their people or race, and their wives as moons, and next 

 we transform them into what we regarded as their symbol. 

 So the Egyptians, in process of time, added the adjunct 

 On, or the Sun, to the name of their great ancestor, 



1 Wisdom, xiii. 2. 



