"Dost thou bring forth the moon's watches at their season, And the Bear and her offspring--dost thou guide them? Knowest thou the laws of heaven? Dost thou determine its influence upon the earth?" _Mazzaloth_ are therefore "the zodiacal signs," but _Mazzaroth_ "the watches or stations of the moon, which marked the progress of the month;"[254:2] or, in other words, the lunar zodiac. But the lunar and the solar zodiac are only different ways of dividing the same belt of stars. Consequently when, as in the passage before us, reference is made to the actual belt of stars as a whole, there is no difference between the two. So that we are obliged, as before, to consider _Mazzaroth_ and _Mazzaloth_ as identical, and both as setting forth the stars of the zodiac. So far as the two zodiacs differ, it is the solar and not the lunar zodiac that is intended. This is evident when we consider the different natures of the apparent motions of the sun and the moon. The sun passes through a twelfth part of the zodiac each month, and month by month the successive constellations of the zodiac are brought out, each in its own season; each having a period during which it rises at sunset, is visible the whole night, and sets at sunrise. The solar _Mazzaroth_ are therefore emphatically brought out, each "in its season." Not so the lunar _Mazzaroth_. The expression, "the watches or stations of the moon which marked the progress of the month," is unsuitable when astronomically considered. "Watches" refer strictly to divisions of the day and night; the "stations" of the moon refer to the twenty-seven or twenty-eight divisions of the lunar zodiac; the "progress of the month" refers to the complete sequence of the lunar phases. These are three entirely different matters, and Dr. Cheyne has confused them. The progress of the moon through its complete series of stations is accomplished in a siderial month--that is, twenty-seven days eight hours, but from the nature of the case it cannot be said that these "stations" are brought out each in his season, in that time, as a month makes but a small change in the aspect of the sky. The moon passes through the complete succession of its phases in the course of a synodical month, which is in the mean twenty-nine days, thirteen hours--that is to say from new to new, or full to full--but no particular star, or constellation, or "station" has any fixed relation to any one given phase of the moon. In the course of some four or five years the moon will have been both new and full in every one of the "lunar stations." "Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? Canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?"