Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...
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Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ...
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Leigh, Edward, 1602-1671.
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London :: Printed by A.M. for T. Pierpoint ... E. Brewster ... and M. Keinton ...,
1657.
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Bible. -- O.T. -- Job -- Commentaries.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Psalms -- Commentaries.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Proverbs -- Commentaries.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Ecclesiastes -- Commentaries.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Song of Solomon -- Commentaries.
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"Annotations on five poetical books of the Old Testament (viz.) Job, Psalmes, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Canticles / by Edward Leigh ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A50049.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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CHAP. XLI.
THe description of the Leviathan given by Job here, will not agree to the* 1.1 Whale; For
1. It is said that he cannot be caught by any skill or strength of men, and they cannot kill him or make use of him for their advantage, v. 1. to 11. but our expe∣rience proveth the contrary in regard of the Whale, for men hunt for them, and catch and kill them, and make use of their bones and oyl.
2. Ver. 5. & 26. His scales or strong pieces of shields are his pride, shut up to∣gether as a close seal, one is so near to another that no air can come between them, now the Whales have no such mighty shields or scales, and his body easily wounded with darts or javelins, and so taken.
Notes
* 1.1
Mirum in mo∣dum hic aestuant In∣terpretes ut omnia & sin∣gula de Dia∣bolo explicent. Vide ••yram Carthus. Gregorium & alios, & nostris inter∣pretibus de balaens, vel si quod est aliud portentosae magnitudinis in mari animal, omnia interpretantibus ad literam optimè fluunt omnia. Vide Jun. Piscat. Mercer. Genev. & alios. Amam. Antibarb. Bibl. l. 3.