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Pleiades
Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
or We find twice mention made in the book of Job of the heavenly constellations. (Job 9:9 and Job 38:31) The sacred writer enumerates but some of them, Arcturus, Orion, the Pleiades, and Mazzaroth; but we may suppose the whole are equally included as those whose influences we cannot bring forth nor bind. "He calleth them all by their names." (Psalms 147:4) And we read that there was a time when the stars in their courses fought in the Lord's course. (Judges 5:20) There is an uncommon degree of beauty as well as sublimity in this relation of the heavenly bodies. The Pleiades are those stars which form a cluster, vulgarly called the seven stars, though even with a naked eye, in a clear night, more can be seen in the ring. Perhaps this is the smallest of the heavenly constellations with which we are acquainted; very beautiful they are to every beholder; and small as they are, yet we find they have "their sweet influences." The bands of Orion are also spoken of as perfectly uncontrollable; and this forms that very large constellation, perhaps none larger in the chambers of the south. Arcturus is among the northern of the heavenly bodies, alike independent of man's government, or man's guidance. But what a refreshing thought it is to the true believer in Jesus, the sinner's Saviour is the Maker of them all; and to whatsoever purpose else they are formed to minister, their alt by his appointment serve to his glory, and his people's welfare!
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Hawker, Robert D.D. Entry for 'Pleiades'. Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance and Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/pmd/p/pleiades.html. London. 1828.
