ANCIENT DIAL.

_For the Table Book._

The dial in use among the ancient Jews differed from that in use among

us. Theirs was a kind of stairs; the time of the day was distinguished,

not by _lines_, but by _steps_ or _degrees_; the shade of the sun every

hour moved forward to a new _degree_. On the dial of Ahaz, the sun went

back (magnoloth) _degrees_ or _steps_, not _lines_.--_Isai._ xxxviii. 8.

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