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278 PHGENICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

prophets generally addressed the people, as also did our Lord on many occasions ; and even this court is termed ‘ The House of the Lord, and is ‘The Temple’ in the New Testament.’’* Tt must certainly have been this outer court of “ the temple ”’ which Christ called ‘‘ My Father’s House,”’ from whence he drove out ‘‘ the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the changer’s money, and overthrew their tables’ ;? for neither religiously nor physically could these have been within the temple-house proper. It was ‘in the presence of all his people 7m the courts of the Lord’s house” that David paid his vows*: “For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.”* And it is to be noted that the gateway on the N. side—7.e., where the non-Judaist Phcenician “‘ image of jealousy ’’ was formerly located—was called ‘‘ The Gate of Sparks,” and it had an upper chamber.* This was possibly where the father of John-the-Baptist performed his Fire-offering course in ‘‘ The month of Making Bel-Fire ”’ ; and the simple burning of incense is repeatedly referred to in the O.T. as the usual form of Baal worship.

The Cross-sceptre or staff traditionally carried by Johnthe-Baptist was also an especial emblem of the “‘ Sun-god ”’ Nin-ib of Jerusalem. As “ Son of God” that “ Sun-god ”’ is given in the Sumerian the synonym of ‘“‘ God of the Cross +-,”* wherein that Cross in the form of St. George’s Red Cross is defined as ‘“‘ Wood-Sceptre,’’ also ‘‘ Fire *’ and “ Fire-god ”’ under the name of Bar or Mas? (i.c., the English “ Bar’’ and “‘ Mace”). There were thus very real, although forgotten, historical reasons for the crusaders seeing visions of St. George’s Red Cross upon the battlements of Jerusalem beckoning them on to rescue this old ancestral Aryan shrine from the Saracens. Indeed, it now appears as if the numerous

1S. Lee, Hebrew Lexicon, 636, ep. Jer. xxvi, 2 and 2 Kings xi, 13.

* John ii, 14-15. The word used in the Greek text here, translated “ temple,” is ’1evon, 7.e., ‘‘ holy or sacred thing,’ and is seldom used for a temple building (cp. Liddell & Scott, 727) ; whereas in verses t9-20 the word for “ temple ’’ is yaos, the classic word for a temple “* building.”

8 Psalms cxvi, 19. 4 7b. Ixxxiv, Io.

® Encl. Bibl., 4946, the word is Nisus. 6 Br., 11096. :

* Bav=Gi-Bil or “ Great Fire-gad ” (Meissner, 998) ; also Bayu,a priest (Meissner, 994), thus defining the Sumerian priest as ‘' the carrier of the Bay or Wood-Cross."’