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Title: Scripture natural history: containing a description of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, molluscous animals, corals, plants, trees, precious stones, and metals, mentioned in the Holy Scriptures
Year: 1845 (1840s)
Authors: Religious Tract Society (Great Britain) Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Publication
Subjects: Nature in the Bible
Publisher: Philadelphia, Presbyterian board of publication
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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e Jews by Antiochus, there were many nobleexamples of persons who would rather die than vio-late the Divine command by partaking of such food.With respect to the herd of swine mentioned in theGospels. Matt, viii; Mark v; Luke viii, it may beremarked, that while the Mosaic law forbad the usingthem for food, Hyrcanus had also passed a law pro-hibiting the Jews from keeping swine. The loss ofthese animals was therefore a just punishment of theirdisobedience; and the disposition they showed on thisoccasion in being more impressed with the loss oftheir property than with the Divine power manifestedby the Saviour, proves how well they deserved correc-tion. When Hadrian rebuilt Jerusalem, he set up theimage of a hog on the gates of the city, to deter theJews from entering it, and to express his contemptfor them. THE HIPPOPOTAMUS. 59 iiirropoTAMUs.-ce^0/A. Order.—Pachy-lcrmata, or, Thiek-akioned QaadropofoBehold now behemoth, wbicfa I made with thee; be eatetk jraw as an ox. Job ll. J &
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the hippopota:.: It is now generally supposed, that the animal de-scribed in the book of Job under the name of behe-moth, is no other than the river-horse or hippopotamus.The male has been found seventeen feet in length,fifteen in circumference, and seven in height. Thehead is enormously large, and the jaws extend up-wards of two feet, and are armed with four cuttingteeth, each of which is twelve inches in length. Theanimal is of one uniform colour, similar to a light tintof Indian ink; the hide, above an inch in thickness, ishardly flexible; the ribs are covered with a thick layerof fat, which when salted and dried, is esteemed as adelicacy. The food of this animal consists chiefly ofgrass and aquatic plants; though it is also fond of riceand the sugar-cane, and often lays waste the fields 60 8CSIPT9BE NATrilVL HISTORY. which arc planted with these productions. Such is itsstrength, that it will sometimes overset heavy-ladenboats, or break them in pieces with its teeth. Its skinis not

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