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number of sacrifices offered to her. Eusebius 
mentions this situation of her temple : it was 
built in the most secluded solitude of that 
mountain'. Constantine overthrew the temple, 
and, according to Augusthie'^, abolished its de- 
testable rites ; but these, however, have in some 
measure survived, and remain at the present 
day among those wretched superstitions which 
degrade a multitude of human beings, to whom 
the Holy Scriptures have been hitherto denied. 
However impious and abominable these super- 
stitions at last became, they were, in their origin, 
of a purer nature ; having resulted solely from 
the veneration paid by a grateful people to those 
luminaries of heaven, whence they supposed all 
their blessing to be derived. Before the coming 
of the Jews into the Promised Land, it is evi- 
dent, from Scripture, that the worship of the 
Moon^ was cultivated by the original inhabitants 
(1) Eusebius (le Laudib. Constant, Orat. et de Prap. lib. iv. cap. 7. 
(2) jJugustm. de Civitate Dei. lib. iv. cap. 10. 
(3) It was from the Phanieinns and Canaunites that the JsraelUes 
learned this worship, " The children gather wood, and the fathers 
kindle the fire, and the women knead their dougli, to make cakes to 
the Queen of Heaven." {Jerem. vii. 8.) The Canaunites and Phoeni- 
ciftns called the wwon Ashterothy^starte, Baaltis. Lucian expressly 
says, thdX Astarte, that is to say, tlie f^'enus of Libnmts, or Queen of 
Heaven, was the moon ; and Herodotus [lib. 5.) calls Astarte, ' Atrr^ed^x'' » 
as it is said by Herodian that the Carthaginians did, who afiirmed her 
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