The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1873-10-12

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- aa OFT THE, NUMBER FOUR; --.- t.,-,..g
Tho Tetrad was anoisntly esteemed tho mos
perfect number, being the arithmetical mea
between one and seven. It wants three O
seven, and exceeds one by three It was Q
generated by the Pythagoreans that they swor
| Omar, the second oaliph, said, /" Four thing
come not back-the spoken word, the spes
arrow the past life, the neglected opportu
10 the sacred Scriptures there are four r;var,
OF Paradise, and four artificial ones arounS
the taberpacie, the services OF which were
conducted By four priests. There are fouI
vision of zaobarias. Four winds siroye ~ un sos
inc sea- and four beasts came mp, " hich are
-FOUR kings. There are the four boasts and tbe
Iour Visions OF Daniel. The elect are to be
gathered from the fonr winds. The Apooalypse
also contains four visions. There are four
beasts around tho throne fun or eyes, fouf
angels who are bound in the river E1phrates,
OF Ing ,Sua angels standing on the fopr corners
There arc four cardinal " irtues, four sins
crying to heaven for Vengeance, four last
things to be remembered. There are four
In nature there are four seasons, the four
points of the compass.
Milton says: % so -s-
to d.
The chariot Of the Eternal Father was con.
voyed
E, -four O5erusis shapes: four faces each
Forty, a multiple of four by ten (both per-
rect numbers), is also one of the sacred nrim
bers. A1"i
The probation of our first parents in fine
Garden OF Eden Is supposed to have been forty
years The rain fell at the deluge forty days
and nights, and the water remained on the
earth forty days. The days of embalming the
dead were forty. =.
Moses was forty years old when he fed into
the land of INDIAN, where he dwelt forty Years
AUD ne was forty years in the wilderness He
was on Mount Sinai forty days and forty niphts.
,c, expedition Of the spice into the promised
the lsraelites in the wilderness lasted fortv
years. f s-s way
solonaon's temple was forty cubits long. In
~ we're .en LAYERS, each four cnbits long, and
Eiijsh's journey to Horeb was forty days.
- EZEKIEL bore the iniquity of Judah forty days
TEL 1Sdgmens Of God upon Egypt was that it
gave forty days of grace to the Nincvites. Onr
Saviour tasted forty days and nights before
entering upon his public life The Same time
eiapsed between tho Resurrection and the Az.
censiol.
THE NUMBER sKvxN. rs-a =.
That the number seven conveys the idea Of
completeness and Perfection TO some is perhaps
1"tuB W tuO taCG 6u8G the CE0&tOf GQf9hed bia
work and rested on the seventh day. And it's
sequsns use in the Scriptures may be to recall
q our minds the creation and Him who made
III things. ,Eaa - 81 {aIs!.H. . ! 1''Ist
Fhe slayer OF Cain. Noah was warned of the
approach Of the deluge seveuSlays previously. I
He selected the clean beats and the fowls By
levens to go into the ark.
ssssS sss: ia sPa sis and insect small
On the seventh month the ark rested on Mount
Ararat. Noe dispatched o dove after an inter-
raj Of seven days each time. Jacob served |
bowed before Esan seven times. In Pharaoh's
lreatn, the seven fat and seven lean kine, and |
he seven ears Of good and seven ears Of blight !
q coru denoted seven years of plenty and |
even years OF famine. Jacob mourned seven /
lays for Rachel, and so did Joseph for Jacob. /
The SANS time was decreed for Saul.
-Mnoh OF the jewish ritual was governed by |
he humber seyen. The seventh day was the |
Sabbath. The seventh year was one of rest.
Ind called the Sabbasical year. and the grand
uhilee was at the end or seven times seven
ears. The slaves Of tho Hebrews were to be !
reed the seventh year. The land was to rest
he seventh year. The conservation of the priest /
acted seven days The high priest wore seven Y
hings-a robe, an embroidered coat. breast
old At the Passover the Israelites were to eat
bread soKen days. The blood Of the
acrifce for sin-oferiDg for the cleansing of T
leper. etc., was 70 be eprinkled before the
L.
he Gil seven times. The golden candiestick
ad seven branches supporting seven burning
amps. Festivals were celebrated seven DAYS
2 succession, as the Feast of Taberuacles
he sacrifices wero seven or twice seven laubs
When the ark v as brought from Obed Eden, TO
erusalem, seven bnllocks and seven rams T.
ere sacrificed. +
Seven nations were to be delivered into the
ands of the Israelites before they could pos
ess the laud of Canaan. They were seven
ears in conquering that land. At the dcstruc-
ON of Jerico the city was composed seven
ays in succession, and sevep priests beating
,ven rams horns, and on the seventh day they
oiupassed the city seven times, when the walls
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Baiaamy by the press command of God
Tered seven bullOcks aud seven rams Ia sacri 4,
ce upon seven affairs. The sacrifice of Asa I
ne seven hundred oxen aud seven hundred ]
Insp. Hezekiah, when he cleansed the house |
the Lord, of it's denominations sacrificed
wen bullocks and seven rams. And God CON-
anded the friends of job to purify them ,
lives by the same Offering. A bullock seven
BARS old WINS sacrifeed after the destruction
the altar of Baal and tho holy groves. The J
nTnOer of Passovers referred TO in she Old :
estament is Seven-One in Egypt. in the viii. i
srDess, at Jericho, in. the time Of Samuel &c :
iGpeh, during the reign Of ,Hezekiah and that i
JosiSh, and the eevenEh In the time OF Ezra. :
sven Hestorations Of life ere uentioned In the J
ibia--of the UidDNtIn con ~ Elijah eha anr, :