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6 king- doro, that 1 make do doubt th« uimc cveuu ai referred to. Well then, with his two honia Ephraiiu iiii[l ManattM-h, wiiich are like the horuii of an aniconi, be sbull pu^b Uil- [ivoplu to^tJitiC[ to tlic ends or the earth, Thift glorious destiny] h&tb not yet bocu fulnllod of those tribes Joseph which have been lost totho knowledge men for more than two thousand years : and beforQ| ti»e duper»ion there was nev*^r any thing done b| them at any time to diftinguish them amoi the tribes of Israel, as if the Lord would putj it out of our power to say that these thi&gvj have been already accompltshcd.— Thus far tho^ two arc included together; but in that which rC' nuiins, " 'Miey are the ten thousands of Ephraim and the ihauKaudsof MaoassL-h ;" it is si^ified that the preference o f the two should he to EpH* raim according to Jacob's blessing of them wbeaj presented to him by Joseph their father: *' Mi nasseli nlso shall become a people, and he ahal be great ; but truly bin younger brother shall bcj greater than he, and his seed shall beconw %\ multitude of uations/' Here again we are at t stand, unless Ephmim shall be ex:iltf'd above aft ekampic or precedent of his past cxpcricacr, or the past experience of any of the tribes of Israel. With this view, the finit thing which ouglit to be done, it to shew wiih what propriety the Jewish people could be denominated the kings of the Ha^t. In the original it i» not *'the kmga of tlic EiAt," but '* the kings from the sun riMug/ in order that the, way of '*ihme ktuga from the, VI-] 0% THK TKK THI»ES. U27 day-Spring or Bim-rifiiDg,'* &c- The king* of the earth and of the whole worid, raeotioned two verses forward, miwt.accordiug to the construction, mean the kin^ who ruled and goTcrncd the earth and the wholtrr worhl : but the cormtniittinii will not admit the same in thf case bdore u», which cun* not mc^n the kin^ft who rei^n in iIh^ Kast, but the kin^ who come from the Kant or the sua- riain^. It designates no more than the quar- ter from which they are to come ; and cannot mean the territory over which they rule, or are to rule. The coiistniction will not admit of it. They are kingti whoe»e way into the eartli ia pre- pared b? the drying^ up of the Euphrates. Now ihe que-fttion is with whul propriety arc the tribes of Israel dcnontinated km^s from the sun-ruings. First, whyare tlieynot called by their properaane of the tribes of l^r^el ? I answer fxnt, for the same rt<uKOii that Rome i« denominated Babylon* and the Tu