An encyclopædia of freemasonry and its kindred sciences .. (1894)
Mackey, Albert Gallatin, 1807-1881, McClenachan, Charles T. (Charles Thompson) · Philadelphia, L. H. Everts · leaf 724
auditce (Lond. Trans.,1650, p. 133,) The Hebrew word Maghensignifies a scutcheon, or any other thingnoted with Hebrew characters, the virtuewhereof is like to that of a scutcheon.After showing that the shield was never animage, because the Mosaic law forbade themaking of graven images, he adds:… … usual form of the Shield of David was toplace in the centre of the two triangles, andat the intersecting points, the Hebrew word K7JX, Agla, which was compounded ofthe initials of the words of the sentence,JIN thy1) OJ nnx, Atah Gibor Lolam Ado-nai, Thou are strong in the eternal God.Thus…
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