V. ANTIQUE MEDALS OF OUR BLESSED SAVIOUR AMONG the various antiquities found in the British Isles from time to time, certain silver and brass Medals of our blessed Saviour, with his profile, and inscriptions in the Hebrew character, are entitled to attention; as furnishing collateral evidence, if genuine antiques, of the early introduction of Christianity into the places in which they were found. I. The first of the series, noticed in the facsimiles of Plate III, is that of a Brass Medal found in the Isle of Anglesey, about A.D. 1702, among the rubbish of an old circular entrenchment, called Brein Gwyn, in the middle of the township of Tre'r Dryw: of which the learned Rowland published a fac-simile in his Mona Antiqua, p. 92; and an explanation of the inscription, in the Appendix, p. 318-321. The Hebrew inscription appears to be this : JESUS THE MIGHTY: THIS IS THE CHRIST The first word in the inscription, y'' Jeshuah, in Hebrew, corresponds to the Greek, Ingovs, 'Jesus,' signifying a "Saviour;" as it is expressed in the Syriac version likewise, Luke i. 31; Matt. i. 21. The second word, the contraction of "Mighty; and referring tural title, God," Isa. ix. 6. Gibor, appears to be Gibour, signifying probably to his Scrip8, Al Gibour, "Mighty The third word, D, Messiah, signifies the same as o χριστος, "The Anointed," as Jesus was preeminently to be king, priest, and prophet. The fourth,, Ha-zeh, is the pronoun, Zeh, ८८ He, or This," and the emphatic article , He, "The," prefixed; both connected with the preceding word, according to constant usage, nin oy, le-am ha-zeh, " to this people," Isa. vi. 9; in Dyn, ha-am ha-zeh, "this people,” Isa. viii. 6; xxix. 13, &c. The fifth, DIN, Adam, is applied to "the first man," the progenitor of the human race; and also, to man or mankind in general, descended from him, throughout the Old Testament: And in the New, is also applied empha tically, to "the second man," the LORD from Heaven;" so distinguished " from the first man Adam;" who became "a quickening Spirit" at his resurrection; for " as in Adam all die, even so in CHRIST shall all be made alive." 1 Cor. XV. 22. 45-49. The sixth,, Jahad," together," intimates the union of the divine and human nature in JESUS CHRIST. Such appears to be a simpler and more natural interpretation of the term, than Mediator," or "Reconciler," proposed in the Appendix to the Mona Antiqua, p. 318.* 66 II. The second Medal is of Silver, and more elegantly engraved, in the possession of the Rev. Thomas Symonds, of Ensham, Oxfordshire. It was given to him by a parishioner, on her death-bed; who always carried it about her, having rather a superstitious veneration for it. Where she got it, he knows not. Its fac-simile is given No. II. in the Plate. The following appears to be the Hebrew inscription: א - ישו .FRONT -- REVERSE. משיח מלך בא בשלום : ואר מאדם עשוי חי * The medal itself was unluckily lost, in the carriage from Anglesey to Oxford. which may be thus literally translated: FRONT." THE LORD JESU." REVERSE. CHRIST THE KING, CAME IN PEACE? AND THE LIGHT FROM THE MAN WAS MADE LIFE." The first letter of the inscription, &, Aleph, appears to be the contraction of 1178, Adōn, "Lord;" rendered necessary, by the space occupied by the image or profile; as the second word, W, Jesu, for the same reason, is curtailed of its last letter, expressed in the first medal. The first word of the Reverse,, Melech, "the King," was a usual epithet of Christ, as "the King of Israel," John i. 50; or "the King of the Jews," Matt. ii. 2; xxvii. 11; or specifically, "Christ the King," Luke xxii. 2; namely, the spiritual, as distinguished from the temporal King, Herod, Matt. ii. 1-6; Cæsar, John xviii. 36. or The third and fourth words, D 81, Babeshalom, "came in peace," are descriptive of his peculiar character as "Prince of Peace,” Isa. ix. 6; who, in meek majesty, entered Jerusalem in humble triumph, like the Judges and Prophets of old, mounted upon an ass; fulfilling prophecy : "Tell ye the daughters of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, even a colt, the foal of an |