The clearest revelations of this divine personage, however, were reserved for the glory of the Monarchal Age, the acme of the Levitical dispensation, which all along prefigured the good things to come. In the Psalms written by David the king, “the sweet Psalmist of Israel,” we find the brightest anticipations of the happiness and universality of Christ’s kingdom, accompanied with the most distinct intimations of his estate of humiliation and exaltation. We refer particularly to the 2nd Psalm, which speaks of him by name as the Messiah; the 8th, of his assumption of our nature; the 16th, of his resurrection and ascension; the 22nd, of his words and his feelings on the cross; the 24th and 68th, of his reception and glory in heaven; the 40th, of the union of his divine and human nature; the 45th and 72nd, of the eternity and glory of his reign; the 91st of his temptation; the 97th of his adoration by the angels; the 102nd and 110th, of his divinity, perpetual priesthood, and eternal duration; the 118th, of his rejection by the Jews; the 132nd, of his name and office as the Messiah; and, the 146th, of his final and everlasting dominion. Moreover, in the last words of David, as elucidated by the critical industry and acumen of Dr. Kennicott, we have a remarkable prophecy of the coming of Christ, couched in one of the most splendid and pleasing figures which can be drawn from the phenomena of the natural world: “And as the light of the morning, shall arise _Jehovah_ the Sun, a morning without clouds, with the glittering of the dew on the tender herb of the earth;” 2 Samuel xxiii. 4. In this passage of the printed Hebrew text the word _Jehovah_ has been omitted; but the corresponding words Θεος and Κυρισς have been preserved in the Septuagint; and Dr. Kennicott found the word ‏יהוה‎ Jehovah, which is wanting in the printed text, in one of the oldest Hebrew MSS. in the Bodleian library, marked by him No. 2; see his “Dissertation” entitled “The Printed State of the Hebrew Text, &c.” vol. i. pp. 468–471. As ‏ש‎ _Shin_ or _Sin_, in the Hieroglyphics of Dr. Lamb, signifies the _Sun_, being the first and last letter of the Hebrew word ‏שמש‎, _Shemesh_, the Sun, it is possible that even the term ‏שילה‎ _Shiloh_, which he has so ingeniously explained, may have originally signified the _Sun Jelovah_: and hence, the origin and propriety of some of the figurative and prophetical expressions to be found in the Psalms and the Prophets. Thus, in Psalm lxxxiv. 11, “The Lord God is a _Sun_ and shield:” in Isaiah xix. 18, “One shall be called the City of the _Sun_;” xxx. 26: “the light of the _Sun_ shall be sevenfold, as the light of _seven_ days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people;” lx. 20: “thy _Sun_ shall go no more down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlasting _light_;” and, in Malachi iv. 2, “But unto you that fear my name, shall the _Sun_ of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.”