Matt. xxi. 1-9;

ass," Zech. ix. 9.

who

"made peace by the blood of his cross." Col. i. 20.

The fifth word, 8, ve ar, appears to be compounded of the conjunction 1, "and," and 8, ar, the contraction of 18, aur, "light;" the middle letter,, vau, being dropt, for want of room for it in the line.

The sixth word, DND, me adam, “from the man," is descriptive of "the second Adam," as observed before, on the first medal; who, at his incarnation, was "the light of the world," John viii. 12; "the true light, which enlighteneth every man coming into the world; " as "flesh, or man ; and dwelling among us. John i. 9. 14. Philip. ii. 6-8.

The seventh and eighth words, "", Ashui hai," was made life," aptly represent Him, in whom was life," John i. 4; "having life in himself," John v. 26; "the resurrection and the life; or the author of the resurrection to life eternal at the last day, to all them that believe in him, his name, or authority as Jesus, the Christ, the Son of God. John xi. 25; xx. 31. Phil, ii. 9-11.

III. The third Medal is of Brass, with a considerable alloy of silver, resembling the celebrated Corinthian brass, so much used in medals. This appears, from the clearness of its sound,

when struck against a table, and from its perfect preservation, though worn a good deal, after having been buried so long. It was accidentally found, last October, 1818, in digging the ridge of a potatoe garden, contiguous to "Friars' walk," near the suburbs of the city of Cork, on the south side; where the name is the only memorial left of an ancient monastery, of which even the ruins have perished, being covered by the soil. Still, however, very extensive foundations were discovered not long since, near the spot where the medal was found, on opening a gravel pit; but this obstruction prevented the proprietor from proceeding; and the pit was filled up again. These foundations lie nearly midway between the ruins of two old abbeys; the one eastward, called Red Abbey, beyond which the city extends in every direction; the other westward, called Gill Abbey, near to which the suburbs extend. They are said to have belonged to the Augustine Friars; and are supposed to have been built by a Bishop Gill, about the sixth century. The monastery, which probably was older, from its more ruinous state, could not have been carlier than the fourth century, in the course of which monkery was imported into Europe from Egypt; and introduced by Eusebius of Vercelli into Italy, and by St. Martin of Tours into Gaul. The medal itself is in the possession of

Mr. George Corlett, of Cork; who, with a laudable zeal to promote the study of Sacred Antiquities, has caused a correct fac-simile of the medal to be engraved; and has widely circulated copies of it among the literati of Great Britain and Ireland; wishing to ascertain, as nearly as may be, the age and authenticity of the medal, and has recently published a pamphlet on the subject.

The inscription on it is the same as that on the second medal. And, fortunately, the second, which is more perfect, removes a doubt about two letters in this, which are either obliterated or imperfectly formed: It supplies the chasm of the fourth letter of the second line, in the Cork medal; by the letter, beth; and proves that the third letter of the fourth line, which has been mistaken for D, Pe, is in reality V, Ain.

Several varieties in the inscriptions of these medals, are noticed by the German antiquaries.

The learned Surenhusius, in his magnificent edition of the Mischna, with Rabbinical comments, 6 Tom. fol. Amsterdam, 1260, Tom. iii. p. 239, has given, from Wagenseil, the fac-simile of a medal of the fisst class, which he saw at Vienna, with this inscription on the reverse:

ישוע נצרי משיח : יהוה ואדם יחד

JESUS OF NAZARETH THE CHRIST; THE lord AND THE MAN TOGETHER,"

This is a much more elegant engraving, and the letters better formed, than in the fac-simile of the Anglesey medal: and the inscription is probably more correct, because the meaning is fuller and plainer. Perhaps, by the ignorance of the engraver, the second word, "), Natsri, might easily have been corrupted into 2, Gibor; and the fourth word, ', Jahoh, into in, Hazch; dropping the small final and initial letter,, Jod, in both words.

Waserus, de nummis Hebræorum, p. 62, has given the fac-simile of a medal of the second class, with the same inscription, in the Hebrew character; in which the contracted fifth word,

, Ve-Ar, is written fully, 181, Ve-Aur; and to make room for the insertion of the letter 1, Vau, the two last letters of the seventh word, "y, are transferred from the fourth, to the last line; coming before the last word, '.

He also cites Theseus Ambrosius, as having scen at Rome, in the pontificate of Julius II. A.D. 1503, and of Leo X. A.D. 1512, some brass medals with the same inscription in the Samaritan character. But that those in the Hebrew or Chaldee character were in more general circulation: vulgo circumferuntur.

Leusden also, in his Philologus Hebræus, Dissertat, xxvii. de nummis et ponderibus Hebræorum, p. 192, gives what he calls a "Jew

ish-Christian Shekel," made by Jews converted to the Christian faith; of brass, in his own possession; in which the inscription in Hebrew, is the same on the reverse, as in the foregoing, of Waserus; with the exception of the first letter, , Aleph, wanting, on the front.

,אדם עשוי

He also notices a variation in some other medals, of the four last words of the reverse; instead of which, these three words are found, D "God was made man," dropping the last word, '. And Hottinger, in his treatise De Nummis Orientalium, p. 149, remarks, that gold and silver medals were to be had in different places, with the same inscription.

Wagenseil, in his Sota, Tom. i. p. 579, gives another medal, with a variety of the same inscrip

אדם substituting אלהים tion ; instead of

a

second time, and rendering, "And man, by man, was made alive." "This medal," says he," is in the hands of many; and infants wear it about their neck." It was therefore evidently used as an amulet. And the Anglesey medal likewise appears to have been used for the same purpose; for there is a hole drilled through it, in the place marked in the fac-simile, with pricks, or dots.

From the multitude and variety of such medals, with inscriptions more or less perfect, current in Germany and Spain, Wagenseil rejects the whole of them as spurious, and of modern fabri