3. BOÖTES (The Coming One).

He cometh.

This constellation still further develops this wondrous personage.

He is pictured as a man walking rapidly, with a spear in his right hand and a sickle in his left hand.

Plate 4: Boötes (the Coming One)

The Greeks called him Bo-ö-tes, which is from the Hebrew root Bo (בּוֹא, to come), meaning the coming. It is referred to in Ps. xcvi. 13:—

“For He cometh,

For He cometh to judge the earth;

He shall judge the world in righteousness,