1845.1 On the Buddhist Emblem of Architecture. 635 



which is in part shall be throughly rested from labour. I quote the ori- 

 ginal with the accepted rendering, and will detail why I give the meta- 

 phrastic version above. eK pspovq yap yzvuacofxtv, Km Ik pepovg 

 7rpo<j)iTzvoiJ.eV orav Se t\dy to reXuov, tote to zk peaovQ icaTtp 

 yrj6r]<J£rai. " For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But 

 when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be 

 done away." The word here translated " prophesy," is 7rpo<piTev(o 9 

 and implies correctly, " to announce, explain," as the oracles of a God. 

 The word rendered " perfect," is to rfXaov, the neuter of the adjec- 

 tive of TtXog, "the end." This connection between the ideas of 

 <■ end" and " perfection," exists in all languages. The word rendered 

 " shall be done away," is JCOTap*y»y0i?<r£Tai, which literally bears the 

 interpretation I have given it ; Kara in composition implying, " com- 

 pleteness, thoroughness ;" and apXeoj being derived from a privative, 

 and zpyov " work." He proceeds in his allusion, and says, " For now 

 we see through a glass darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in 

 part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known." It is easy to 

 perceive to what he refers, when he says that it " was seen through a 

 glass ; but then face to face ;" the " then" alluding to the time when 

 that which was in part should be done away, when that which is per- 

 fect, (the end) is come ; the seeing it " face to face," alludes to when 

 he shall stand in the presence of the Great Revealer of all secrets, who 

 will then expound to him all the mysteries of His Will. What is still 

 more singular is, that the word rendered " darkly," is in the original 

 tvaiviy/maTi, " in covert allusion," or " emblematically expressed." 

 We may gather then the following particulars from this description : 

 1st. of all that he refers to something typifying the approach of death, 

 the coming of the to Ttceiov ; 2ndly, that during that, something typi- 

 fying Death, he saw something through a glass ; 3rdly, that this last was 

 expressed enigmatically, or by an emblem ; and 4thly, that it in its 

 enigma referred to the Revealer of all mysteries, whom he was to stand 

 <l face to face," with, when the time came that he should know, even as 

 also he was known. We have seen how that among the antient Egyp- 

 tians, the first mystagogues of Antiquity, this Being was emblematically 

 represented by a Star ; and we have said that the Egyptian Star was 

 invariably five-rayed. 



