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

But I find he hath a great Antagonist, who though he agreeth with him in the negative part of his opinion and discourse,¹ That the Reem here spoken of in Job, is neither the Unicorn nor the Rhinoceros, nor the Bufalus, nor the Bisons; yet he doth not agree with him in the affirmative part of his opinion, that the Reem is that savage beast or wild Ox called Urus; but first gives a large account why the Reem cannot be that beast called Urus, nor any of that kind; and then concludes, that it is a kind of Goat, or of the Goatish kind, by name the Oryx, being an animal in colour pure white, in stature tall, in disposition fierce and untractable, in his gate stately, lifting up his head and horns on high. That this beast is the Reem here spoken of, he proves by various testimonies, taken especially out of the ancient Arabian, Chaldean, and Hebrew Writers, and endeavours to remove several objections arising from the seeming incompetency of any beast of the Goatish rank or kind, to answer the description given of that noble animal called Reem, both in the Text and in many other places of Scripture.

But I find he hath a great Antagonist, who though he agreeth with him in the negative part of his opinion and discourse,¹ That the Reem here spoken of in Job, is neither the Vnicorn nor the Rhinocerote, nor the Bufalus, nor the Bisons; yet he doth not agree with him in the affirmative part of his opinion, that the Reem is that savage beast or wild Ox called Vrus; but first gives a large account why the Reem cannot be that beast called Vrus, nor any of that kind; and then concludes, that it is a kind of Goat, or of the Goatish kind, by name the Oryx, being an animal in colour pure white, in stature tall, in disposition fierce and untractable, in his gate stately, lifting up his head and horns on high. That this beast is the Reem here spoken of, he proves by various testimonies, taken especially out of the ancient Arabian, Chaldean, and Hebrew Writers, and endeavours to remove several objections arising from the seeming incompetency of any beast of the Goatish rank or kind, to answer the description given of that noble animal called Reem, both in the Text and in many other places of Scripture.

1. 1Bocha•tus part poster. l. 3. c. 27.