CEDAR TREE. 75 



There are various passages in Scripture which bear 

 allusion to the luxuriant growth of the Cedar. The 

 Psalmist, likening the church to a fair spreading vine, 

 says 



" The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs 

 thereof were like the goodly cedars. 



" She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto 

 the river*." 



Again : 



" The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree; he shall grow 

 like a cedar in Lebanon. 



" Those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish 

 in the courts of our God. They shall still bring forth fruit in old 

 age ; they shall be fat and flourishing t." 



" The trees of the Lord are full of sap, the cedars of Lebanon 

 which he hath planted J." 



In Ezekiel, where the power of God to raise the hum- 

 ble and to lower those in power is described by a parable, 

 is the following passage : 



" Thus saith the Lord God, I will also take of the highest 

 branch of the high cedar, and will set it ; I will crop off from the 

 top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high 

 mountain and eminent. 



" In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it, and it 

 shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar ." 



This last passage particularly bears reference to the 

 height of the cedar ; as does also the following : 



" Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them ; whose height was 

 like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks |i." 



* Psalm Ixxx. 10, 11. t Psalm xcii. 12, 13, U. 



Psalm civ. 16. Ezekiel, xvii. 22, 23. 



|| Amos, chap. ii. verse 9. 



