will be turned out of their feeding-places, where they have hitherto strangled their prey at leisure.

In Ps. xxii. 21, also, the lion seems used as figurative of Assyria, as the unicorn, or rather buffalo, is of Egypt.

One of the winged lions which once ornamented the palace

at Nineveh, and is now in the British Museum.

In Note on Ezek. xlv. 12, we see an Assyrian weight was formed in the shape of a lion,-probably to mark it as of royal authority, and of standard heaviness.

HABAKKUK, III. 4, 8.

"And His brightness was as the light, and He had horns coming out of His hand."

"Was Thy wrath against the sea, that Thou didst ride upon Thine horses and Thy chariots of salvation?"

The Greek artists in the representation of their god Jupiter make use of the same images as the Hebrew poet.

The drawing below is from a Greek vase in the British Museum. The pagan god, riding in his charïot, holds his thunderbolt in his right hand, in which the rays of light are drawn like the twisted horns of a ram. This explains our text, which, indeed, would be rendered equally literally, and more intelligibly, if we changed the word "horns" for "rays of light." rays of light." A kindred word is

rightly translated "shone" in Exod. xxxiv. 35, where we read that Moses' face shone when he came down from Mount Sinai. In that passage, however, the Latin Vulgate translation makes the same mistake as the English Authorised Version does in our text; and it says that Moses had horns, which is the excuse for Michael Angelo so representing him in his celebrated statue.

MALACHI, IV. 3.

"And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet."

Here, as in the last Note, we have a painter using the same figure as the Hebrew prophet. At the foot of a wooden mummy case in the British Museum, we see painted the soles of the two shoes, and on each is the figure of a man with his arms and hands tied behind him, and his feet tied at the ankles. In this helpless state he is supposed to be trampled on by the walker. His His appearance marks him as one of the Arab neighbours of the

Egyptians, who moved about at pleasure with their flocks, and whose marauding incursions on the cultivated lands in the valley of the Nile made them hated as natural enemies.

MATTHEW, II. 1.

"Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king."

Herod I., sometimes called the Great, was made King of Judea by the Romans in the year B.C. 37, though he was hardly master of his kingdom, or began to reign till three years later, when he gained possession of Jerusalem. The above coin is dated in his third year, and he probably did not issue coins earlier.- From Madden's Jewish Coinage. On one side is a vessel with a bell-shaped cover and a stand, or perhaps a helmet on a throne. Over it is a star and two palm-branches. On the other side is an altar or tripod, the date the year 3, and the words, " of Herod, the king," in Greek letters.

Herod began to rebuild the temple of Jerusalem
His family, so far as they are mentioned in the

B.C. 18.

"But when he heard that Archelaus did reign in Judea, in the room of his father Herod, he was afraid to go thither."

Æ

On the death of Herod I. his son, Archelaus, became sovereign of Judea, including Samaria, agreeably to his father's will, and he was shortly afterwards confirmed in his power by Augustus. He received the lower title of