An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…

Now as to the Text in hand, it may suffice my purpose (leaving farther search of these things to Naturalists) to say, that the Hebrew word Reem signifies a wild beast, very fierce and furious, usually called an Unicorn, or expressed by a word signifying a beast having but one horn in Greek, Latin, and English.

Now as to the Text in hand, it may suffice my purpose (leaving farther search of these things to Naturalists) to say, that the Hebrew word Reem signifies a wild beast, very fierce and furious, usually called an Unicorn, or expressed by a word signifying a beast having but one horn in Greek, Latine, and English.

But though I shall not deliver any opinion of my own to the contrary, yet I suppose it will not be unpleasing to the ingenuous and learned Reader, if before I proceed with my own meditations, upon what is said in this Chapter, about this creature, I here insert the discourse and opinion of that learned Physician, and Divine Critic, Doctor Arnoldus Bootius, in the third Book of his Sacred Animadversions upon the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, and the first Chapter of that Book: The substance of which I have gathered, and in most places translated word for word, as followeth

But though I shall not deliver any opinion of my own to the contrary, yet I suppose it will not be unpleasing to the ingenuous and learned Reader, if before I proceed with my own meditations, upon what is said in this Chapter, about this creature, I here insert the discourse and opinion of that learned Physitian, and Divine Critick, Doctor Arnoldus Bootius, in the third Book of his Sacred Animadversions upon the Hebrew Text of the Old Testament, and the first Chapter of that Book: The substance of which I have gathered, and in most places translated word for word, as followeth