A Selection of Curious Articles From the Gentlemans Magazine volume 1
A Selection of Curious Articles From the Gentlemans Magazine volume 1
John Walker
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V. 1. 103, 104. Where a shepherd calls three of his sheep by their names; and that the shepherds often went before, while the flock followed, is above asserted by St. John in express words. Hence God, who is said to go be- fore the Israelites, in a pillar of cloud by day, and in a pillar of fire by night, is, Psalm Ixxx. 1. Styled ' the shepherd of Israel that led Joseph like a flock;' hence the title of shep- herd, Is. Xliv. 28, is given by God to Cyrus, and by the most ancient authors to king...s, who headed their armies to battle; and since David was an expert shepherd, as well as divine poet, after whose sweet strains his flock doubtless went, the fable of Orpheus may, I think, be easily deduced from thence. But the care of these shepherds did not stop here. Thev seem to have trained up the ram to collect the flock, when any way scattered, and thus to draw them together in that regular order, in which sheep brought together almost natu- rally stand. Let it be observed, that I am not here posi- tive, though Lucian says of Polyphemus the shepherd, IT:- Xa/AEyoj TW xgifj owocra p/i' TT^a.
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