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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, and thirty-seventh chapters of the book of Job being the substance of thirty-five lectures / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. Simmons, 1664
AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-fifth, Th… › Chapter 36 › Verses 32-33
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Some render, not vapour, but plants or herbs, trees or grass, these go up or ascend out of the earth, as well as vapours. Our translation is plain. The cattle also, the very sheep and oxen, yea the fowls of the air will tell when we shall have foul weather; before such storms come usually they run to shelter, hiding and shifting for themselves as well as they can, against the storm. Cattle presage rain. 1Pliny in his Natural History speaks much of the natural sagacity that is in beasts, swine, sheep and oxen, whereby they perceive change of weather. The Poet Virgil also verifies largely and accurately of these things; reporting how husbandmen that keep cattle will gather by what they see in the cattle what the weather will be. The cattle also concerning the vapour.
Some render, not vapour, but plants or herbs, trees or grass, these go up or ascend out of the earth, as well as vapours. Our translation is plain. The cattel also, the very sheep and oxen, yea the fowles of the air will tell when we shall have foul weaher; before such stormes come usually they run to shelter, hiding and shifting for themselves as well as they can, against the storm. Cattel presage rain. 1Pliny in his Natural History speaks much of the natural sagacity that is in beasts, swine, sheep and oxen, whereby they perceive change of weather. The Poet Virgil also verifies largely and acurately of these things; reporting how husbandmen that keep cattel will gather by what they see in the cattel what the weather will be. The cattel also concerning the vapour.
- 1Plinius, lib. 18. c. 35. Natural History. Virgilius, in Georg. l. 1.
Hence Note; Brute Creatures, by a natural instinct, perceive the approaching changes of the weather.
Hence Note; Bruit Creatures, by a natural instinct, perceive the approaching changes of the weather.