NOTES. Ezek. i. 5, and Rev. iv. 6. 2 "There was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald."-Rev. iv. 3. 3 "The silence of their rapture spake Unutterable things." "A Dream of Cloud-land," by MRS. 4"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have dominion, &c.”—Gen. i. 26. 5 "The Lord God had not caused it to rain upon the earth; but there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground."-Gen. ii. 5, 6. "And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept, &c. . . .”—Gen. ii. 21. 7 "Which is as a bridegroom, coming out of his chamber. . . .". Ps. xix. 5. This varies from the tradition espoused, or invented by Milton. Our Lord says (Luke x. 18) "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven," which rather favours the idea that the spectacle was limited to divine witnesses. "And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."-Rev. viii. 1. The author has taken the liberty to appropriate this expressive description of angelic attention not unmingled with apprehension. 10 Isai. xlv. 21. Rom. iii. 26. "The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them."-Ps. xxxiv. 7. "Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?"-Heb. i. 14. 12" He shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy ways."-Ps. xci. 11. 13❝I say unto you, that in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.”—Matt. xviii. 10. 14 Particularly in the two hymns "Te Deum laudamus," and "Benedicite omnia opera Domini." 15 "Therefore with angels and archangels, and with all the company of Heaven, &c." Sacramental Anthem (7pioάyios). 16 Eccles. xii. 6. 17 On the highest point (of Great Gavel) is a small triangular receptacle in the native rock, which, the shepherds say, is never dry. There we might have slaked our thirst plenteously with a pure and celestial liquid; for the cup or basin, it appears, has no other feeder than the dews of heaven, the showers, the vapours, the hoar-frost, and the spotless snow.-WORDSWORTH's Guide to the Lakes. |