CEDAR TREE. 



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There are various passages in Scripture which bear 

 alhision to the hixuriant growth of the Cedar. The 

 Psalmist, hkening 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 f." 



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

 which he hath planted %" 



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 ; 1 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 



* Psalm Ixxx. iO, 11. t Psalm xcii. 12, 13, 14. 



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



j! Amos, chap. ii. verse 9. 



