There is no less learning than elegance in this expreffion. The Greeks call these defcended Gods, KATAIBATAΣ, and Jupiter was peculiarly wor shipped as fuch, as more frequently defcending in thunder and lightning to punish guilty mor tals: amongst whose titles and inscriptions you frequently meet with, ΔΙΟΣ ΚΑΤΑΒΑΤΟΥ. In K. Henry V. A& II. "And therefore in fierce tempeft IS HE COMING "In thunder, and in earthquake, like a Jove.' Agreeable to this opinion Paul and Barnabas were thought by the people of Lycaonia to be defcended Gods. Οἱ θεοὶ ὁμοιωθέντες ἀνθρώποις " ΚΑ ΤΕΒΗΣΑΝ πρὸς αὐτές. In the Tempeft, A& IV. Profp. The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, "The folemn temples, the great globe itself, "Yea, all, which it inherit, fhall diffolve." This 11 Acts xiv. 2. And here give me leave to fet in a better light a paffage in the difcourfes of Epictetus. L. I. c. 29. *Ανθρωπων ανθρώπες κύριΘ. ἐκ ἔςι, ἀλλὰ θάνατον καὶ ζωή, και ἡδονὴ καὶ πόνω· ἐπεὶ, χωρὶς τέτων, ὄψει πῶς εὐταθῶ· ὅταν δὲ μετὰ ἀεράπων, ἐγὼ δὲ ταῦτα φοβᾶμαι, ἄγαγέ μοι τὸν Καίσαρα, καὶ τέτων ΕΛΘΗ, βροχών κ τί ἄλλο ἢ ἐπέγνωκα τὸν κύριον, ὡς ὁ δραπέτης ; " Man is not the mafter of man, but ó life and death, pleasure and pain ; for, exclufive of these, Q2 This is exactly from Scripture. Pet. ep. 2. iii, 10. τοιχεῖα ΛΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ. and 7. 11. τέτων εν πάντων ΛΥΟΜΕΝΩΝ. Seeing then that all thefe things fhall be DISSOLVED. and . 12. Ougavol πυρόμενοι ΛΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ καὶ τοιχεῖα καυσέμενα ΤΗ KETAI. The beavens being on fire fhall be DIS-. SOLVED, and the elements shall melt with fervent beat. Ifaiah xxxiv, 4. And all the host of beaven fhall be DISSOLVED. ΤΑΚΗΣΟΝΤΑΙ πᾶσαι αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν ἐρανῶν. LXX. The scripture ufes frequently HAND, for power and might and the HAND OF GOD fignifies his power and providence. In K. Henry V. A& I. "Let us deliver "Our puiffance into the hand of God." 66 In "bring me Caefar, and you fhall fee how I prefer ve my tranquillity: but when he, with thefe, comes like A DESCENDED GOD in thunder and lightening, and I too fear fuch things "as thefe; what do I, but, like a fugitive flave, recognise my mafter ?" Nor can I pass over another of the like nature in Homer. II. . 668. Jupiter speaks to Apollo, Ειδ ̓ ἄΓε νῦν, φίλε Φοῖβε, κελαινεφὲς αἷμα κάθηρον Eia age nunc, dilecte Phacbe, nigro fanguine purga In Macbeth, A& II. "In the great hand of God I ftand." And in other paffages. Pindar Ol. 10. 25. has i. e. Suváme, according to the interpretation of δυνάμει, the scholiaft. And This is the Latin translation: but profectus, is jejune and poor, in comparison to the force of the Greek; EAOËN, defcending as a god. 12 This word in Scripture is applied to Beasts. Gen ix, 5. "And furely your blood of your lives will I require: at "the HAND of every beast will I require it; and at the "band of man, at the hand of every man's brother will I require the life of man." Pfalm xxii, 20. "Deliver 66 66 66 my foul from the fword: my darling from the power [Heb. from THE HAND] of the dog." Spencer. B. I. C. 3. ft. 20. "Him booteth not refift, nor fuccour call "His bleeding heart is in the venger's HAND, "Who ftraight him rent in thousand pieces small The word is here used in its primary fignification, for from the old Latin, bendo, i. e. capio, unde prehendo, &c. comes And thus the verse, as it seems to me, in Homer Il. . fhould be understood. Οὐδ ̓ ὅγε πρὶν λοιμοῖο βαρείας ΧΕΙΡΑΣ ἀφέξει. Nor will be reftrain the violent force and strength of the plague before, &c. the common translation is, Neque bic prius à pefte graves manus abftinebit, which has neither the fenfe nor beauty of the former interpretation. In the Tempeft, A&t I. "To run upon the sharp wind of the north." I would rather read, "To ride upon the sharp wind of the north." hand. And hence HENT Shakesp. in Measure for Mea fure. A& IV. i. "The generous and graveft Citizens "Have HENT the gates, and very near upon e. have laid hold on, feiz'd, &c. Hence an adroit person who can turn his hand to every thing, is call'd a hendy oṛ handy man. Chaucer in the Miller's tale 278. p. 26. edit. Urry. So lovith the this Hende Nicholas, That Abfolon may blow the buk'is horne, T. hendy Nicholas. Sa So before Ariel speaking to Profpero, "All hail, great mafter! grave Sir, hail! I come "To answer thy beft pleasure: Be't to fly; The fame image "he applies to the waters. A& II. "Fran. I faw him beat the furges under him, "And ride upon their backs.” This is the fcripture expreffion, Thou causeft me to ride upon the wind, Job xxx. 22. The Lord rideth on the fwift cloud, If. xix. 1. Extol him that rideth upon the heavens, Pf. lxviii. 4. So Milton II, 540. "And ride the air "In whirlwind. 13 And fo did Horace before him. Per ficulas equitavit undas. Furip. in Phoeniff. . 219. Ζεφύρω πνοαίς ΙΠΠΕΥΣΑΝΤΟΣ |