There is something pleasing in this fancy, but it seems like one of Origen's allegories, he being the father of allegorical interpretation.

It had its origin in an ancient Rabbinical sentiment.] So I discoursed with my visitors till between ten and eleven o'clock, and when they rose to go, we all stood up together and joined in prayer.

We commended Janette to her covenant-keeping God, whose name had been inscribed upon her.

We remembered the little boy who had been the occasion of all this pleasant conversation, and prayed that his consecration might be accepted, and the sign and seal of it be owned and blessed to him and his parents.

As I walked down to the gate with my friends, I said to them, that, when God was covenanting with Abraham, he bade him look up into the heavens, and count the stars, and told him that his seed, like them, should be innumerable.