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an Allowance be made for a fmall alteration in the 
iecond and fixth letters, will be AGA- 
THAGELVS, AGATHAGGELVS, or, as the 
Greeks pronounced, and the Romans wrote it, AGA- 
THANGELVSj the Greek Nu being (19) fome- 
times omitted in eaftern words, and fometimes fup- 
plying the (20) place of Dagefch Forte. Whence 
we may conclude, that the Abilenes, who were 
neighbours to the Heliopolitans, if not the people of 
Tadmor, took the Greek ZETX KEPATNIOZ, 
the Roman IVPITER FVLGVRATOR, or IV- 
PITER THE THVNDERER, and BAAL 
SHEMESH, or the SVN, for the fame deity j and 
confequently that whether we look upon the words 
AGLIBOLVS and MALACHBELVS as pointing 
out to us IVPITER, or BELV S, and the SVN, (21) 
as fome imagine, or only the latter of thofe deities, as 
others (22) will have it, we cannot greatly err. 
From the infcription now before us we may likewife 
colled, that fome of the Syrians, inhabiting diftrids 
not in the neighbourhood of Tadmor, made ufe of 
the very fame letters, or alphabet, about the year 
of our Lord 134, which then prevailed amongft the 
Palmyrenes. 
What has been here advanced, in relation to the 
identity of the Greek ZETS, the Roman IVPITER, 
and BAAL SHEMESH, or the SVN, is perfedly 
confonant to the fentiments of Macrobius on this 
(19) Bochart. Chan. p. 833. 
(20) Idem ibid. & p. 534. 
(21) Zofim. Lib. i. Tho. Hyd. Hijl. Rcl.vet.Perf. p. 117. 
(22) Jan. Gruter. & Joan, belden. ubi fup. Sam. Bochart. ubi 
fup. p. 8u. 
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