Thus the Sun, as personified in Christ, says Rev., i., 18, "I am he that liveth, and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore, Amen." Again, "I am the resurrection and the life; _the day star on high, that redeemeth his people_; I come a light into the world." This word _Amen_ is nothing else than the disguise in which the translators have thought it proper to put _Ammon*_. The Sun, in the sign Aries, was personified in Jupiter Ammon, as well as in Christ. Ammon signifies the secret or concealed one, and _sacred_ had originally no other meaning than _secret_. In Isaiah lxv., 16, is not the "God Ammon" mentioned in the original, and suppressed by the English translators? The astro-drama of the Redeemer in the book of Job** is another sublime allegory of the sun and circle of the seasons. * The difference between the words Aman, Amen, and Ammon, says Sir William Drummond, "is nothing." ** For fuller explanation of the dramas of Job and Lasarus, see the works of the Rev. Mr. Taylor. Job, who here personates the declining year in its last ungenial and evil months, is of course dejected, sick, and grievously afflicted; his wife (whom we may presume to be Anna, from Annus, the circle of' the year) bids him curse God and die, that is, to cease putting his trust in the sun, who had metaphorically forsaken him for the present. But Job, though nearly worn out, as the year is in December, has still hopes of his _revival_, and exclaims, "I know that my Redeemer liveth," and at the last day (the 21st December) "_I shall rise up_", etc. Yet in his exhausted state, and sore afflictions, he is so nigh to despair that his God, the sun, reproaches him for his impatience under the immutable necessities of faith, and seems to say in way of admonition, "I cannot be with you always; nor is it reasonable in you to expect the enjoyment of perpetual summer," and in illustration thereof, he most beautifully instances the summer constellations, and asks, "Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth the twelve signs in the season?" that is, canst thou have summer throughout the twelve months. "Canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?" The seven summer months, from March to September inclusive, are personated in the seven sons of Job, who are killed by a "great wind from the wilderness," (winter) that is, they are killed by the five winter months commencing in October,* but as this is only an allegorical death, the drama represents them as being all alive again in the succeeding summer; and Job, the year, is fully restored to health and happiness.