"6.--The water betokens the Roman, or the fourth of the great monarchies
to whose dominion the Jews were subjected.
"7--- The ox is a symbol of the Saracens, who subdued Palestine, and
brought it under the caliphate.
"8.--The butcher that killed the ox denotes the Crusaders, by whom the
Holy Land was wrested out of the hands of the Saracens.
"9.--The angel of death signifies the Turkish power, by which the land
of Palestine was taken from the Franks, and to which it is still
subject.
"10.--The commencement of the tenth stanza is designed to show that God
will take signal vengeance on the Turks, immediately after whose
overthrow the Jews are to be restored to their own land, and live under
the government of their long-expected Messiah."
To return to illustrations less remote, and of a more familiar nature:--
An ill-bred. Londoner calls a shilling a _hog_, and half-a-crown a
_bull_. He little knows what havoc he is making with our modern
theorists, who assert that nothing is worthy of belief, or ought to be
relied upon, before the era of "legitimate" or written "history." These
terms corroborate and identify themselves with the most ancient of
traditionary customs, long ere princes had monopolised the surface of
coined money with their own images and superscriptions.
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