[ 75 ° ] 
cvm flagro in AVRiG^£ modvm ; lava tenet 
fvlmen et fpicas , qua cunSla Jovis Solifque con - 
fociatam potentiam monflrant. Sanchoniatho, Philo 
Byblius, Servius, Herodian, Julius Capitolinus, and 
others, in effedt likewife affert the (26) fame thing. 
And that the Sun was antientlv worfbiped in chofe 
parts of Syria, bordering upon Palaeftine, under the 
name of Shemejh , or Baal Shemejh , is fufficiently 
implied by the local names Beth > hem< Jh, the temple 
of Shemejh, or the Sun; Ir Shemcfh , the city of She - 
mefi , or the Sun; Har Shemejh, the mountain of 
Shemejh , or the Sun, &c. which (27' not feldom occur 
in Scripture. It has been remarked by Sahnafius (28), 
that feveral nations and cities of the Eaft paid divine 
honours to the Sun under different appellations, 
each of them having one or more peculiar to itfelf. 
The people of Tadmor gave him the furnames of 
Aglibolus , and Malachbelus , as has been already ob- 
ferved ; the citizens of Emefa, or Hems, called him 
Alagabalus , Elagabalus , or Heliogabalus ; the Perfians 
denominated him Miher , or Mi hr, which was convert- 
ed into Mithra by the Greeks ; the Babylonians digni- 
fied him with the title of Baal , or Bel, importing 
Lord ; and the Abilenes, according to the infer iption 
I have been endeavouring to decipher, Baal Shemejh, 
With regard to the nature of the manfion, cham- 
ber, or apartment, eredted and fitted up by AGA- 
THANGELVS for BAAL SHEMESH, the SVN, 
( 26 ) Bochart. ubi fup. p. 736, 737. 
(27) Matth. Hiller. Onomajl . Sacr. p. 771, 772. Tubingae, 1706. 
(28) Claud. Salmaf. ubi Tup, 
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