SION. a This is one of the Names of Mount Hermon. ‘Tis probably of this Psalm cxxxiii. 3.Mountain that the Psalmist speaks, As the Dew of Hermon, and as the Dew that descended upon the Mountains of Zion.1 The Union and the good Understanding of the Priests and Levites, is as agreeable as the Dew which falls upon Hermon and Sion, two contiguous Mountains, and which make only one Chain of Mountains. Jesus Ecclus. xxxiv. 17.the Son of Sirach speaks also of Mount Hermon under the Name of Sion. Quasi Cupressus in monte Sion. In the Greek it is, in monte Hermon.
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The Hebrew here says, Zion, ;ציוןbut it seems to be put for Sion, * .שיאוןSo the Latin Vulgate; but our Translation has, Dragons in their pleasant Houses. ↩