§ 43. That is, Adonis, as Saint Hierom•• conceives, whom most Latines doe follow. Adonis is known by all for a Phenicia•• Deity, so called from 〈◊〉〈◊〉, Adone, A Lord in Hebrew. And the Poets are almost hoarse with singin the sad El••gies, how Venus bemoaned Adonis killed by a Boar. In mythologie this is true, when wan••on women bemoan their beautifull youth, slaughtered with old age, leaving the print and mark of his teeth and tuskes in the wrinkles furrowed in their faces. But seeing Adonis is generally conceived to be the Sun, Venus her mourning at his death, rather represents the generall griefe of northern men, when the Sun in Iune (called Tham••z by the Iews and their neighbours) takes his leave of them in the tropick of Cancer, and retreateth southward, making shorter days by d••gre••s. This Phenician superstition infected the Iews;z 1.1 Then he brought me to the doo•• of the gate of the Lords house, which was towards the north, and behold there sat women weeping for Tammuz: And why the gate towards the north? Because the body of the Sun never appearing in that quarter of the heaven, it was the fittest place to bemoan the absence thereof. Had not those womens tears been better expended on the death of Iosiah, ac∣cording to thata 1.2 ordinance in Israel? But we may be well assured, such eyes as wept for Tammuz, were dry for Iosiah.
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••zek. 8. 14.
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2 Chr. 35. 25.