Gen. 10:6. Now what the heathen said of Jupiter is evidently taken from Ham, the son of Noah. Noah is the Saturn of the heathen, as is evident by note on Genesis 1:27. It is fabled that Saturn had three sons Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, who divided the world between them. Sanchoniathon says, "The son of Saturn was Zeus Belus, or Baal, the chief god among the Phoenicians. It was a name assumed by Jehovah, the God of Israel, before abused to superstition, as appears by Hosea 2:16. It is elsewhere written Βεελ, Beel, or Βεελσαμιν which answers to the Hebrew Baal Shamaiim, the Lord of heaven. Zeus is derived from ζεω, which signifies to be hot, and answereth exactly to the Hebrew Cham, from the radix Chamam, to wax hot. Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians called Jupiter, Ammon, from their progenitor Ham; whence Egypt is called "the land of Ham," Psalms 105:23; Psalms 105:27. Also Plutarch testifies that Egypt in the Sacreds of Isis, was termed Χημια : whence this, but from Cham? And Africa of old was called Hammonia. The Africans were wont to worship Ham under the name of Hammon. These things are more largely treated of by Cudworth, p. 337, 338, 339.

Again: Sanchoniathon terms Jupiter, Sydyk, or as Damascius in Photius, Sadyk. Now this name is evidently taken from the Hebrew Saddik, the just, which is a name given to God, as also to the first patriarchs, whence Melchizedek. The name Jupiter is evidently the same with Ia Pater, or Ιευ Πατηρ, that is, Father Jah, or Jeu. That God's name, Jah, was well known to the Phoenicians, who communicated the same to the Grecians, is evident by what Porphyry says of Sanchonianthon's deriving the materials of his history from Jerombatus, the priest of the god Ιαω. So Diodorus tells us that Moses inscribed his law to the god called Jao. So the oblique cases of Jupiter are from God's name, Jehovah, as Jovi, Jove, etc. The same name, Jai, in the oracle of Clarius Apollo, is given to Bacchus again. Jupiter was Sabasius, from that title of God, Jehovah, Sabaoth. (This Cudworth also notices, p. 259, 260.) The fable of Jupiter's cutting off his father's genitalia, seems to arise from Ham's seeing his father's nakedness. Again, in the metamorphosis of the gods of Egypt, it is said that Jupiter was turned into a ram; which fable Bochart supposes to have had its rise from the cognation between the Hebrew words for El and Aiil, a ram, the plural number of both which is the same, Elim. The tradition of Bacchus being produced out of Jupiter's thigh, seems to come from that known expression to signify the natural proceeding of posterity from a father, their coming out of his loins. Gale's Court of the Gen. p.1. b. 1. p. 10, 11, 12, 13.

Gen. 11:3-4

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