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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
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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.
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 sence of the word, be called Ʋnicorns. Our late Annotators seem to incline, that by the word Reem here rendred Ʋnicorn, is meant the wild Bull rather than the Unicorn, because as the wild Ass is here oppos'd to the tame, so the wild Bull seems to be oppos'd to the Oxe, which is a tame creature And fitted for the service of man.
- 1Arist. l. 2. de Hist. Animal. c. 1. Plin. l. 8. c. 21. l. 11. c. 37.
1The Vulgar Latin translation reads it, the Rhinoceros, and so doth one of the Greek interpreters; and in our English translation (Isa. 34.7.) we put the word Unicorns in the Text, and Rhinocerots in the Margin. The notation of which word (Rhinocerot) imports a beast with a horn of his nose or snout. The Rhinoceros is a large beast, near in bigness (say some) to the Elephant,2 only shorter in his legs. And the description or character which one of the Ancients gives of the Rhinoceros, is very suitable to, and doth fully correspond with that which the Lord gives here in this Text of that savage beast (Reem) by us rendered