The court of the Gentiles: or A discourse touching the original of human literature, both philologie and philosophie, from the Scriptures, and Jewish church in order to a demonstration, of 1. The perfection of Gods vvord, and church light. 2: The imperfection of natures light, and mischief of vain pholosophie. 3. The right use of human learning, and especially sound philosophie. / By T.G.

§. 6. To the Fable of Pluto, the God of Hell, we may sub∣join that of the Giant Enceladus, who was very near akin unto, if not the same with, Pluto. The Mythologists fable, that this En∣celadus was 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, a Giant that fought against the Gods; who therefore was either by Minerva, or Jupiter himself, cast down to Hell; & there overwhelmed with that very great moun∣tain Aetna: whence, say they, proceeded fire out of his mouth and nostrils; which some refer to the burnings of Aetna &c. That this fable was brought into Greece, by the Phenicians, ori∣ginally from the the Jewish Church, seems evident (as Bochart has well observed) from many considerations. 1. The very name 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Enceladus, is, by Bochart, made to be the same with the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 akalathon, i.e. tortuous or crooked: which is the very Epithet given to the Devil Esa 27.1. Levi∣athan that crooked serpent 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Nahas akalaton. The transmutation of the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 into the Greek. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 seems natural and easy: which is soon done, by the change only of 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 into 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 into 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉; as in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 crooked, from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 akul.

2. That Enceladus is exactly parallel to the Devil his cha∣racter Esa 27.1. &c. is evident from his other name Typhon, or Typhos; who is thus described, by Pindar, Pythia 1 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

There lies in Tartar that hun∣dred headed Typhos the enemy of the Gods.

So Apollido∣rus lib. 1.

There appeared the hundred headed Dragon, Ty∣phon, &c.

The like Hyginus, cap. 152.

Tartar procreated out of the Earth Typhon, of huge magnitude, of a monstrous forme, with an hundred Dragon heads.

Which being laid to∣gether, Bochart (Can. lib. 1. cap. 28. fol. 581.) thus expli∣cates

to us:

If we will look (saies he) to the reason of the Alle∣gorie, there is no doubt, but this Giant Enceladus, (or Typhon) whom Jupiter by a Thunderbolt struck down to Tartar, (be∣cause he made an insurrection against the Gods,) and kept in those Abysses of the Earth, there to burne in everlasting flames, is the same with that Akalathon, or crooked Serpent the Devil,

which God Esa. 27.1. smote with his sword, and 2 Pet. 2.4. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 but cast them down to Hell &c. And that these Grecian Fables of Typhon, had their original from the Hebrews, appears

1. First from the very name Typhon, which Bochart fetcheth from the Hebrew 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Tophet; whence the Greek 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, which signifies the same with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 to burne: Thence Esa. 30.33. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Tophet is the same with that place in the valley of Hinnom, where they sacrificed their children to Moloch, by casting them alive into the fire, as 2 King. 23.10. Jer. 7.31,32. This valley of Hinnom, wherein Tophet stood, by reason of those barbarous cruel flames became a symbol or type of Hell; whence from 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Gehinnom, the Greeks termed Hell fire 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Gehenna. Hence also Tophet, the place in this valley of Hinnom, where this fire burned, gave original to Typhon.

2 The Attributes given to Typhon prove him to be the same with the Devil, according to that character given him in Scrip∣ture. For 1. tis said, that Typhon waged war with Jupiter, and contended with him for the Empire; whence he was struck down by Jupiter into Tartar &c. So the Scripture assures us touch∣ing the Devil, that for his sin against God, he was cast down to Hell. 2. Tis said, that when Jupiter had, by a fiery Thunder∣bolt, struck down Typhon, he laid upon him the mountain Aet∣na in Sicilie, which was by him set on fire: whence all moun∣tains, that had any eruptions of fire, were fabled to lie upon Typhon: which answers to the Devils character 2 Pet. 2.4. cast them down to hell.

3. And because the Egyptians looked on Typhon as an evil

God, or the cause of all ill, therefore they take the stories of the Patriarchs, especially such as most infested them by opposing their Idolatrie, & attribute them unto him. We have already men∣tioned the storie of Shem, who being alwaies hated by the po∣steritie of Cham, (amongst whom the Egyptians were) passed a∣mong them for Pluto and Typhon. We shall now endeavor to shew, how the Egyptians, out of their cursed humor, applyed the whole storie of Moses unto Typhon. Learned Bochart (in a conference with him) informed me at large out of Plutarch and others, touching the parallel betwixt Typhon and Moses.

Plu∣tarch (said he) in his Isis and Osiris, tels us, 1. that Typhon made war with the Gods, i.e. with the Egyptian Idols: so Moses Exod. 8. &c. 2. Typhon was the son of a Queen: so Moses the adopted son of Pharaohs daughter. 3. Typhon was hid in an Ark, and cast on the river Tanais: so Moses, Exod. 2.3. 4. Ty∣phon had command of all the beasts: so Moses of the Frogs &c. Exod. 8.5. &c. 5. Typhon is said to divide his Army into 13. parts: so Moses the Israelites into 13 (i.e. reckoning the two sons of Joseph as distinct) Tribes.

These, with some other instances were given me by Bochart, touching the parallel be∣twixt Typhon and Moses: and I find some mention of the same in his Historie de Animalibus sacris part. 1. lib. 2. cap. 34. That which gave occasion to the Egyptians and Greeks to insert so many parcels of Moses's storie into their Mythologie of Typhon, was the freshnes and novaltie of Moses's Atchievements, who lived much about the same time, when this Fable-coining Art began: as before, in Bacchus's genealogie. Sandford, Vossius, and Dickinson make Typhon, by the art of Anagrammatisme, the same with Python, the Serpent Apollo destroyed; which they take to be a fable of Og, the Giant of Basan, destroyed by Jo∣shuah, as before §. 3. and in what follows chap 5. §. 3. We may take in both one and the other of these References; because the Mythologists agreed not in the application of their Fables.

3. Another name given to Enceladus, which argues his gene∣alogie

to be the same with the Devils, was Briareus. This name Bochart (Can. lib. 1. cap. 28.) makes to be the same with 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 Belial, the name given, by the Hebrews, to the Devil. Thence for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, 2 Cor. 6.15. the Syriack has 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, as also the Ara∣bick. So in Hesychius 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c.

Notes

• Enceladus the same with the Devil Esa 27.1.
• Canaan. lib. 1. cap. 28. fol. 581.
• Typhon his Ori∣gi•…•….
• Typhon from Tophet, the same with the Devil.
• Esa. 30.33. 2 King. 23.10 Jer. 7.31,32.
• 2 Pet. 2.4.
• Typhons parallel with Moses.
• Illustres illae Mosis victoriae adhuc recenti memoria cele∣bres, magis in∣notuisse putandae sunt. Sandf. l. 1. §. 22.
• Typhons paral∣lel with Og.