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head; who exprefly (23) affirms, that the Greek 
ZETX, th6 Roman IVPITER, the principal god 
of the Heliopolitans, and therefore undoubtedly 
that of their neighbours the Abilenes, were the 
very fame deity with the SVN. Nec ipfe Jupiter , 
fays that writer, rex deorum , Solis naturam videtur 
excedere ; fed eumdem ejfe Jovem ac Solem clarts 
docetur tndiciis. In fupport of which affection 
he cites Homer, Plato, Cornificius, Pofidonius, 
and Cleanthes ; who, according to him, abfolutely 
evince fuch a notion. The Affyrians alfo, or Syri- 
ans, if we will believe (24) him, allowed the IV- 
PITER of the Heliopolitans, and therefore in all like- 
lihood the IVPITER of their neighbours the Abilenes, 
to have been BAAL SHEMESH, or the SVN. Af- 
fyrii quoque , adds he, Salem fub nomine Jovis (i. e. 
BAAL, BAALIS, vel BELI), quem Dia Heliopo- 
LiTEN cognominanty maximis cceremoniis celebrant in 
civitate , qua Heliopolis nnncupatur . Nay, which is 
dire&ly in point, from the lame author it very clearly 
(25) appears, that IVPITER HELIOPOLITES was 
not only BAAL SHEMESH, or the SVN, but like- 
wife, in conformity to our infcriptions, the ZETX 
KEPATNIOX, or IVPITER THE THVN- 
DERER, of the Greeks. Hunc vero, continues 
he, eumdem Jovem Solemque ejfe cum ex ipfo facro - 
rum ritUy turn ex habitu dinofcitur. Simulacrum 
enim aureum fpecie imberbi injlat dextra e lev at a 
(23) Macrob. Saturn. Lib. I. c. xxiii. p. 215— 217. Londi 
1694. 
(24) Idem ibid. 
(25) Idem ibid. 
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