Note 46 — Chapter II · TESTIMONY OF THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH TO THE SUBJECT OF PROPHECY.

“The construction of this sentence in the original, indicates that Baal and the Sun are to be considered as one and the same; for the copulative ‘ו Vau, is not put between them as it is between the remaining words; thus, and the Moon, and the Planets (or, more literally, and Mazzaroth), &c.” The latter term, which occurs also in Job xxxviii. 32, is understood by most critics, to signify the Twelve Signs of the Zodiac; if this be its real meaning, the doctrine of the Celestial Sphere must have had a very early origin, and long anterior to the famous sphere of Chiron or Eudoxus.