The _Ecliptic_, or path of the sun, if it could be viewed from immediately beneath the Polar Star, would form a complete and perfect circle, would be concentric with the _Equator_, and all the stars and the sun would appear to move in this circle, never rising or setting. To a person north or south of the Equator the stars therefore rise and set obliquely; while to a person on the Equator they rise and set perpendicularly, each star being twelve hours above and twelve below the horizon. The points where the two circles (the _Ecliptic_ and the _Equator_) intersect each other are called the _Equinoctial points_. It is the movement of these points (which are now moving from Aries to Pisces) which gives rise to the term, “_the precession of the Equinoxes_.” 19 It is exactly the same with the books of the Bible. Their order and their names, _as we have them_ in the English Bible, are those which _man_ has given them, copied from the Septuagint and Vulgate, and in many cases are not the Divine names according to the Hebrew Canon. 20 Here, the fact of His humiliation, together with this long period of His rejection, is leaped over, and the prophecy passes on at once—over at least a period of 1893 years—to this “glory which should follow.” 21 ε, _Al Mureddin_. 22 β, _Zavijavah_. 23 The star now marked δ. 24 The star ζ. 25 The star α, _Al Zimach_. 26 The stars are known by Greek letters and sometimes by numbers, &c. Alpha (α) denotes a star of the _first_ magnitude; Beta (β), the second, and so on. This plan was originated by Bayer in his _Uranometria_, 1603. The star _Alpha_, as seen in the New Great Equatorial Telescope recently set up at Greenwich, is now discovered to be really a _double_ star, though it had hitherto always appeared to be _one_. 27 Jer. xxxiii. 15 being only a repetition of Jer. xxiii. 5. 28 From כָּמַה which occurs only in Ps. lxiii. 1, “my flesh _longeth_ for thee.” It is akin to חָמַד, _to desire_. Ps. xix. 10; Is. liii. 2; Hag. ii. 7; etc. 29 A Latin translation of his work is in the British Museum Library. He says the Persians understood these signs, but that the Indians perverted them with inventions. 30 The constellations are called _Decans_. The word means _a part_, and is used of the three parts into which each sign is divided, each of which is occupied by a constellation. 31 It appears that MM. Saulnier, fils, and Lelorrain arrived while Signor Bossi was engaged in copying it, but concealed their design to remove it. The King of France paid £6,250 sterling for it. It has since been copied, and lithographs have been published. 32 Act IV., Scene 3.