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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 39 › Verse 1-4
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Yet it may be objected; surely it is no such hard matter to number the months which Hinds and wild Goats fulfil: For if the question be, what time of their age Goats first conceive,1 and how long they continue bearing, Pliny answers? Sometimes they conceive at a year old, always at two years old; and (saith he) they continue bearing eight years. Secondly, If the question be, about what time of the year they conceive and bring forth? the same Author answers, They conceive in November, and b ing fo•th in March, so that they go burdened five months. Again, if the question be about the Hinds, he thus resolves it; They conceive about the latter end of September, and bring forth about the middle of April, the whole time they go,2 being about eight months; so that there seems no such difficulty in numbering the months, which either wild Goats or Hinds fulfil, that is, how long they go with young.
Yet it may be objected; surely it is no such hard matter to number the months which Hinds and wilde Goats fulfil: For if the question be, what time of their age Goats first conceive,1 and how long they continue bearing, Pliny answers? Sometimes they conceive at a year old, alwayes at two years old; and (saith he) they continue bearing eight years. Secondly, If the question be, about what time of the year they conceive and bring forth? the same Author answers, They conceive in November, and b ing fo•th in March, so that they go burdened five months. Again, if the question be about the Hinds, he thus resolves it; They conceive about the latter end of September, and bring forth about the middle of April, the whole time they go,2 being about eight months; so that there seems no such difficulty in numbring the months, which either wilde Goats or Hinds fulfil, that is, how long they go with young.
- 1Aliquando anniculae semper binae & pariunt octonis annis. Plin. l. 8. c. 50.