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this refpe& a grove may often be formed in a very fhort 
pace of time, Bhd with but very little trou 
roves have been in all ages held in ones veneration. 
The profeuche, and hoes oF dex of the Tews, whither they 
reforted fer the purpoles of devotion, were probably fituated 
‘in groves. (See Bea sg sak 26.) The profeuche in Alex- 
andria, erientiohe d by Philo, had groves: about them, be- 
eaufe Agree that the Alexandrians, in a tumult againtt 
" the Jews, cut n the trees of their Ee ue uch : that at 
Rome, in Egeria’s i grove) Ww was of the fam: The vene- 
sation which ‘ee ancient druids had for peeves is well known. 
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However this be, the inftitution of 
profane thofe who were 
= Afterwards, they built chapels and remples in them ; 
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for refuges 
gen Mofes, 
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avi. 21.) Nor would he fuffer ehiin ti to offer their facrifices 
on the tops of hills and mountains as the heathens di 
ordered that at fhould be brought to one altar, i in the 
Hace which God appointed. (Deut. xii. 13, 14.) And as 
r the groves which the Canaanites had planted, and the 
idols and altars which they had erected on the tops of high 
eaorans and hills for the worfhip of their gods, the Ifraelites 
ded utterly to deftroy them. gh xii. 2, 3.) 
The groves and high places feem to have e fame 
laces, or groves «planted on the tops of sii probably 
. ; which the idolatrous worfhip was 
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round an open area 
geriormet. See Hula 1g. 
Various conjectures vaults Aiea offered in order to account 
for the reafon and origin of planting oe groves. Some 
have imagine this was done in order to render the fervice 
more agreeable to the worfhippers by ote pleafantnefs of 
the fhade; whilit ak Pron that the gods were thus 
pay to be eems, accor es ng to Virgil, 
ve been th realo on of Dido’ s building the temple of 
Yume i in a delightful grove : 
- Lucus in urbe fuit. media, letiffimus mw 
The one or other of thee reafons oe to be intimated in 
f Hofea sect Or 
: arcane ae : : 
tena fein Ui And VirgiPs in. ti 
ine 
the Traclites from — exprefily forbade 
of trees near his altar.’ (Deut 
ere, conceive their i 
i- ML 4, 5. Fening’s Jewish Ant. 
AGOGUE, 
347 7 et feq.); orelfe, wecaufe fuch dark concealed fituations 
{uited the lewd myfteries of their idolatrous worfhip. In 
roof of the lewdnefs and obfcenity of om of the-relin 
gious rites of the heathens, we may refer to Herodot. 
Euterpe, v. 64. et Clie § 199. Diod. Sic.-1. iv, init. Valer. 
ax. lite. 6. § 15. Juv. Sat. ix. v. 24, and to what 
Eufebius ‘Rivs of a ve on mount Libanus, iabeansa to 
Venus, in his « Tite of Conftantine,”’ 1. im. c. 55. 
allo 1 Kings, xiv. 23, 24. 
ere remains to be mentioned another conjeCture which 
feems as probable as any ; vz. that this praétice began 
with the worfhip of ogra or i fouls. It was an 
ancient reset = bu 2 = under trees, or in woods. 
images and al 
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Xxlii., 19, 16. Arrian de a.) 
round their temples and altars Sie grees ‘aad ae 
this cuftom of planting trees near temples, the poets 
yled all their oaipies 
From 
d groves 
images of the heroes or 
proach as near to him as the 
Tacitus CAs l. xii. _§ 57- ) {peaks of fome oles which 
were thought “ maxime colo propinquare, es mor- 
talium 4 udiri.”” It 
Pp ancient groves. Accord- 
ingly they are all flat at the top, to ferve the purpofes of 
n altar. It is faid, that altars to the fun, of the fame 
form, though not fo large as the pyramids, were found among 
merican a ido aters. (See Young’s Hiftorical Differ- 
Religion, vol. i. p. 222— 
fro erruptien in acts of worfhip: “ Lucos et 
ipfa filentia storia fays Pliny (Nat. Hilt. 1. xii. c.1-.)- 
t was probably on this account that the worfhippers o 
the true God had alfo their a or erie of retire- 
— = worthip, on hills o demos 
cal sa to pray.” 
fynagog (See 1 Sam. ix. 
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