There can be no mistaking the voice of this united testimony. For this enemy is under the down‐coming foot of Orion, and it tells of the blessed fact that when the true Orion, “the Sun of Righteousness, shall arise,” and “the true light” shall shine over all the earth, He “shall tread down the wicked” (Mal. iv.), and every enemy will be subdued under His feet. “It is He that shall tread down our enemies” (Ps. lx. 12), as He has said: “I will tread them in Mine anger, And trample them in My fury ... For the day of vengeance is in Mine heart, And the year of My redeemed is come.” (Isa. lxiii. 3, 4.) 2. CANIS MAJOR (The Dog), or SIRIUS (The Prince). _The coming Glorious Prince of Princes (Sirius)._ This second constellation carries on the teaching, and tells of the glorious Prince who will thus subdue and reign. In the Denderah Zodiac he is called _Apes_, which means _the head_. He is pictured as a hawk (_Naz_, נַץ, _caused to come forth_, _coming swiftly down_). The hawk is the natural enemy of the serpent, and here it has on its head a pestle and mortar, indicating the fact that he shall crush the head of the enemy. In the Persian planisphere it is pictured as _a wolf_, and is called _Zeeb_, which in Hebrew (זְאֵב) has the same meaning. Plutarch translates it Προόπτης, _Leader_. In Arabic it means _coming quickly_. [Illustration] Plate 34: CANIS MAJOR (the Dog) and CANIS MINOR (the Second Dog) Its ancient name and meaning must be obtained from the names of its stars which have come down to us. There are 64 altogether. Two are of the 1st magnitude, two of the 2nd, four of the 3rd, four of the 4th, etc. Of these α (in the head) is the brightest in the whole heavens! It is called _Sirius_, _the Prince_ (שַׂר, _Sar_), as in Isa. ix. 6. _Sirius_(66) was, by the ancients, always associated with great heat. And the hottest part of the year we still call “the dog days,” though, through the variation as observed in different latitudes, and the precession of the equinoxes, its rising has long ceased to have any relation to those days. Virgil says that Sirius “With pestilential heat infects the sky.” Homer spoke of it as a star “Whose burning breath Taints the red air with fevers, plagues, and death.” It is not, however, of its heat that its name speaks, but of the fact that it is the brightest of all the stars, as He of whom it witnesses is the “Prince of princes,” “the Prince of the Kings of the earth.” Though this “Dog‐Star” came to have an ill‐omened association, it was not so in more ancient times. In the ancient Akkadian it is called _Kaṡiṡta_, which means _the Leader_ and Prince of the heavenly host. While (as Mr. Robert Brown, Junr., points out) “the Sacred Books of Persia contain many praises of the star _Tistrya_ or _Tistar_ (_Sirius_), ‘the chieftain of the East.’ ”(67)