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the frequent notice it there obtains. In the book of 
Ecclesiasticus its stately beauty furnishes Wisdom with 
an apt similitude : — “I was exalted like a palm tree in 
Engaddi.” “ To express or delineate prosperity and 
opulence,” says Bishop Lowth, “ a comparison is as¬ 
sumed from the cedar or the palm thus, in the ninety- 
second Psalm, verse 12., — “ The righteous shall 
flourish like the palm tree.” Its common use in religious 
ceremonies has been before adverted to; indeed, its in¬ 
troduction into all the solemn festivals of the Jews was 
by divine appointment; and these were so frequent, 
that Judea was typified by the palm tree upon the coins 
of Vespasian and Titus. 
Since the Christian era it is associated with more 
touching and glorious recollections, — our Saviour’s 
triumphal entry into Jerusalem; which event was 
formerly commemorated in Christian countries by car¬ 
rying branches of palm in solemn procession: on that 
account the Sunday before Easter still retains the name 
of Palm Sunday. There is yet another honour reserved 
for it. When earthly distinctions are passed away, “ as a 
tale that is told,” the palm is held forth in the Book of 
Revelations as symbolic of the final victory of the just. 
“ After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, 
which no man could number, of all nations, and kin- 
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