other, they are all plainly resolvable into those of the _Solar_ deity. The same is to be observed of the gods of the Romans. Indeed, it is well known that the magnates of the Pantheon, Apollo, Phœbus, Bacchus, Jupiter, &c.,[49] were all severally addressed by the poets, as possessing the power supposed to reside in the _Sun_, to direct the seasons of the year, to give success to the operations of agriculture, to decide the fates of nations, and to influence all the affairs of men. 4. Origin of the Greek and Latin names of the Supreme God—Ingenious derivation by Dr. Hales—Confutation of that given by Francoeur in his “Uranographie”—Origin of the New Testament titles of Christ—Citation of Theophilus on this subject—Irrefragable proof of the Divinity of our Lord—Original temple of the Sun—Connection of Religious worship and Astronomical observation—Antiquity of the Hindoos and Chinese. Thus it appears, that the heathen nations have, in all ages and countries, borrowed the names and attributes of Jehovah, the God of Israel, and applied them to the absurd creations of their own imagination, the physical objects of the world around them, or the stupid fabrications of their own hands. The origin of the name Ζεύς or Δὶς in Greek, and _Jupiter_ in Latin, as applied to the supreme God, appears to be distinctly traceable to the Hebrew. Dr. Hales endeavours to deduce the former of these from the Phenician form of ‏יהוה‎, _Jehovah_, or _Jahoh_, which in Greek letters is Ιευω, or Ιαω; and he cites the answer of the oracle of the Clarian Apollo, to the enquiry “Which of the gods is he to be reckoned, who is called Ιαω?”— Φραζεο τον, παντων ὑπατον θεον ἐμμεν ΙΑΩ. Learn this, that JAH is greatest God of all. This derivation is ingenious; but it is more specious than solid. The name Δὶς, which gives its oblique cases to Σεύς, is evidently derived from the Hebrew ‏די‎, _Di_, _the Sufficient_, or _Self-sufficient One_, or, with the relative, ‏שדי‎, _Sdi_ or _Shaddai_, _He who is Self-sufficient_, _the Almighty_, a Scriptural name of God; Genesis xvii. 1. From the former comes Δὶς, and from the latter Σεύς,[50] by the addition of the Greek terminations. The derivation of _Jupiter_ from _Jah pater_ is obvious; while the oblique cases _Jovis_, _Jovi_, &c., clearly show their descent, or rather theft from the Hebrew word _Jehovah_. These observations on the origin of the Greek and Latin names of the Supreme Being are rendered the more necessary, in consequence of the following most extraordinary attempt on the part of an eminent French writer, to give a different, and we hesitate not to say, a very absurd account of their derivation. M. Francoeur, in his very curious and useful work on Astronomy, entitled “Uranographie,” p. 382, 5th edition, says, “Each PLANET was denoted by a letter; arranging these bodies in the order of their supposed distances, these representative characters were:—