OLIVE TREES. There are some who compare the symbol of a point within a circle to the golden candle stick flanked by two olive trees, mentioned by Zechariah ; the candidate representing the circle, the oil the point, and the trees the two perpendicular parallel lines. The former was an emblem of the Jewish nation governed by the central oil, or the Holy Spirit of God ; and the olive trees were the two anointed ones, viz., the king and priest. applied by the prophet to Zerubbabel and Jeshua, who were raised up by divine providence to preside over the temporal and spiritual affairs of the Jewish nation when the second Temple was building, and bearing an ultimate reference to the lights and ornaments of the Christian church.
ON. Under this appellation the Deity was worship ped by the Egyptians, and they professed to believe that he was eternal, and the fountain of light and life but, according to their gross conceptions, being neces sarily visible, the sun was adored as his representative, and was most probably the same as Osiris. If they
believed On to be the living and etern al God, they allowed the same attributes to the sun, which they undoubtedly worshipped as the Lord of the creation. Oannes was the God of the Chaldeans, and Dag-On of the Philistines; both of which are derivations of the samo name. On was evidently the same deity as the Hebrew Jehovah, and was introduced amongst the Greeks by Plato, who acknowledges his eternity and incomprehen sibility in these remarkable words : "Tell me of the God On; which is, and never knew beginning." And the same name was used by the early 'Christians for the true God ; for St. John, in the Apocalypse, has this expression-0 52v, scaz o 7;v, xai o eexogevos, which is trans lated by our authorized version of the Scriptures, by "Him, which is, and which was, and which is to come."