follows Zeus, Demarius, and Adorus. Without doubt this triad
represents a monad Deity similar in character to the one observed
in Egypt and other countries.

In the minds of all well-informed persons, there is no longer any
doubt that in Abraham's time the Canaanites worshipped the same
gods as did the Persians and all the other nations about them--
namely, Elohim, the dual or triune creative force in Nature. As
the Sun was the source whence proceeded all light and life as
well as reproductive or generative power, it had become the
object of adoration, and as the emblem of the Deity, it was
worshipped by all the nations of the earth in its three
capacities as Creator, Preserver, and Destroyer or Regenerator
each female and male.

Melchizedek, who was a priest of the most high God, blessed
Abraham, who was a worshipper of the same Deity. On this subject
Dr. Shuckford says:

"It is evident that Abraham and his descendants worshipped not
only the true and living God, but they invoked him in the name of
the Lord, and they worshipped the Lord whose name they invoked,
so that two persons were the object of their worship, God and
this Lord: and the Scriptures have distinguished these two
persons from one another by this circumstance, that God no man
hath seen at any time nor can see but the Lord whom Abraham and
his descendants worshipped was the person who appeared to them."

We are told that when chap. xxi., verse 33, of Genesis is
correctly translated, Abraham is represented as having invoked