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Nay, even to aid our conceptions of the grandeur and 
majesty of the Messiah,— 
“ His countenance is like Lebanon, excellent as the cedars.” 
Every subject it is employed to illustrate, every epithet 
by which it is distinguished, speaks its unrivalled pre¬ 
eminence. Thus, in the 104th psalm,— 
“ The trees of the Lord are full of sap ; even the cedars of Libanus, which 
he hath planted.” 
In another psalm, along with all that is grand and 
beautiful in nature, it alone is called upon by name, as 
if to represent “ all the stately inhabitants of the forest,” 
to adore the great Creator, 
“Praise the Lord, mountains and all hills; fruitful trees, and all 
cedars.” 
The accuracy of its description by the sacred writers, 
even when using it figuratively, is worthy of remark. 
Its great strength is implied by the very power men¬ 
tioned as effecting its destruction: “ The voice of the Lord 
breaketh the cedars, yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars 
of Lebanon ; ” while its mode of growth and general 
appearance is as strikingly intimated by Ezekiel, in his 
highly-wrought comparison of the Assyrian monarch to 
“ a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a 
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