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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 9-12
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.
This word (Reem) which in the Hebrew bears only that general signification Highness, 1is rendered by the Seventy in Greek Monoceros, and by the Latins Unicornis, both which answer our English term Unicorn; the notation of all these words in the Greek, Latin, and English imports a beast with one horn, whereas (I say) the Hebrew word imports only the highness or nobleness of that animal or beast intended under it.
This word (Reem) which in the Hebrew bears only that general signification Highness, 1is rendred by the Seventy in Greek Monoceros, and by the Latines Ʋnicornis, both which answer our English term Ʋnicorn; the notation of all these words in the Greek, Latine, and English imports a beast with one horn, whereas (I say) the Hebrew word imports only the highness or nobleness of that animal or beast intended under it.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew]. 70. Unicornu. Lat.〈non-Latin alphabet〉. 70. Ʋnicornu. Lat.
1Natural Historians, in their descriptions of, and discourses about the beasts of the earth, make report of an Indian Ass with one horn, as also of Indian Oxen with one horn, which may therefore, according to the sense of the word, be called Unicorns. Our late Annotators seem to incline, that by the word Reem here rendered Unicorn, is meant the wild Bull rather than the Unicorn, because as the wild Ass is here opposed to the tame, so the wild Bull seems to be opposed to the Ox, which is a tame creature And fitted for the service of man.