PUBLIC-DOMAIN CHRISTIAN BOOK
The Pulpit Commentary — Isaiah — Volume 1
George Rawlinson [1812-1902] · 527,316 words · 579 reading sections
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into our sonls. Dow~ need connsel on an.y special matter~ let us take it to. him1,and he will ~bow ns the "·isesL &nd best course. III. 'T'HE NAME OF "MIGHTY .Goo." The Son of God is himself God, and if God then certainly " mighty "-nay, '' almighty." What the Messiah was to do, could b~ <l!lne by none less Lhan Go…
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its risible King. The names begin io the past, advance to the present, aod end in the for future. They first bespeak our reverence and awe, the fuunda.tions of religious feeling. They then call forth oul' trust, showing Christ to us all-wise, almighty. They end by eliciting our love towards him as e. protecting "Father…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-7.-Vt"sion of future glory. In bright contrast to the preceding gloomy outlook, bursts the enrapturing view of future glory on the prophet's soul. I. CoMPENSATION FOB PAST SUl"FEBING. Not for ever is the land to lie darkened. A great light of deliverance is to appear. The prophet'…
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nation, a." burden" espccinlly to be felt by the kingdom of the ten tribes (cl. Zech, ix, 1). It has been made tributary to the Assyrians, yet imagines it will recover its former power by violence and predatory raids, la their bravado they exclaim, "Thongh the bricks fall down, we will build with freestone; and though …
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Vers. l, 2.-Great light in deep darkness. In wratli God remembers ri:lercy; he makes us to "sing of mercy and of jud,,ament." • He "will not al ways .chide, nor keep his anger for ever." Even unto disobedient and perverse Israel he will mam:fest his Divine pity, his redeeming power. -Respecting tbis promise we may n9te…
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Ver. 6.-Spirit1.aZ empire,· "And the government shall be upon his shoulder." 1.: TiiE ACHIEVEMENT WHICH LAY OUTSIDE THE PURPO8E OJ' THE SON OF Gon. For what end wns that wondrous Child «born, that holy Son given? He came not to restore afal,len.human dyr.asty. The most ardent and eager hopes of his countrymen were dir…
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no int.ercourse with men of other n&tions, &cted upon by the n&rrowing and stiffening influences which were prevalent and powerful in his land and time, should teach as he taught shout (1) the fatherhood of God; (2) the spirituality of Divine worship and eaored Fernce; (3) the openness of the outcast and the abandone…
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Ver. 6.-0hristian peace. "The Prince of Peace." Before considering what is the peace which is distinctively Christian, it may be well to remark: 1. That the first, incidental result of the coming of Christ is not peace, but discord (see Matt. x. 34-36). 'l'he first consequence of the introduction or the revival of Chri…
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Vers. 14-17.-Man in God's view. There a.re three classes among ma11ki11d in reference to whom we here learn tLe thought and feeling of God. We infer from what u. 11t&ted in the text-- • I. H.rs SPECIAL INTEREST IN THE YOUNG. '!'hinge liad come to such a state, the natural order of things was so reversed, that "the Lor…
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Ver. 2.-Light in dark11e-ss. Cheyne's translation brings out the mee.ning and reference of this passage. "Surely there is (now) no (more) gloom to her whose lei was affliction. At the former time she brought shame on the land of Zebulun, and on the land of Napbtali, but in the latter be bath brought honour on the wa…
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thy help found." 2. Because this one thing, redemption, is wholly beyond man's attainment. We are amazed at what man can do, in overcoming mate1ial obstacles and yoking to his service the giant forces of nature. But at redemption from sin man is arrested; there his power ceases. "No man can redeem his brother, or give …
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1<et t.he 1bougbt of God and of earthly kings together. On the other he.nd, there Mver hM been 11ge or nation in which the delltcst thoughts and tenderest associations and mOl!t reverent feelings did not gathE!r round the word" father," Everywhere, even fo. benighted heAthendom, fathers have been men's idelllS of th…
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"rightcot)RJ:IC~~ anrl 1p!)aco kissed each other." The spiritual kingdom could ha.ve no other basis. than, God',s,.righteousness, and Jesus must clear that righteousness of all misapprehension, and show men how it lies as the corner-stone of the kingdom which ho.built up. II. 'I'm~ INOREABE 011' TllE RIOHTEOUB KINGDOM…
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EXPOSITION. were the chief sufferers by the perversion of CHAPTERX. justice (comp. eh. i. 17, 23). They were Vers. 1-4.-The prophecy began in eh. exactly the classes for whom God had most 11. 8 terminates with this stanza, which con- compassion, and whom he had commeuded tains a warning against injustice aud op- in …
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Vere. 5-19.-ASSYRIA, AFTER BEING Gon's I come np without the Lord (Jehovah) INSTRUMENT TO PUNISH ISRAEL, SHALL HER· against this place, to destroy it? The Lord SELF BE PUNISHED JN HER TURN. The wicked (Jehovah) said to me, Go up against this land, and destroy it" (compare below, eh. are a sword in the hand of God (Pa…
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to thC' Aiosnian arms, Rtid been l11id in ruin~ gnted." It is quite in accordnnce with Aa- to punish th<>m for offering resistance. Six syrinn ideas thnt the conquered .oountriea ~ueh cities nre m<>ntione,1-Ce.lneh, probably should be called "kingdoms of the idols " Niffer. iu Lower Mesopotamia; Carchemish, (literal…
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atout hee.tt; i.e. tho notions, language, etc., perceiving, the.t she is a mere instrument, which flowed from the stoutness of heart-- like an axe, a saw, a rod, or a staff. The such la11guo.ge, e.g., as thCLt of vers. 8-11 BBW' .•• him that sha.keth it; rather, him anrl 13, 14, Of the King of Assyria. The that mm,e…
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"within a brief apace." It is not to be mken Vem. 22, 23.-These versos are excgetioal litere.Ily. of the term "remnant," and bring out ita Ver. 18.-P'orellt . . , fruitful :fteld, full force. The promise had been me.de to ••Forest" and "frnitful field" (oo.nnel) are Abraham the.t hie seed should be " like the "Some…
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pletcd by the men of Ephraim, whereof we The "pe.seage of Michma.,h" (1 Sam. Iiii. have an account in Judg. vii. 19-25. Its 23)-the deeply sunken valley, ea.lied now counterpart in Aesyrio.n history would seem tbe Wady Bvweinit, between Michmash to be the destruction of Sennacherib's army, (Mukkmaa) and Gebo. (Jeba)…
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HOMILETICS. Ver. 8.-God ie man'B only ssre Refuge in the day of ca14mity. "God is our Refu!rtl and Strength, a very present Help in trouble. Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into th.J mi<lst of the eeli,: 1ho11g;h the waters thereof roar and be troubled, 1…
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I. ABBYnlA'II PnlDJ'IJ As BROWN' FOB'i'll m BORI'PTURE, 1. In Rabshakeh's embassy (2:Kinge xviii, 19-35). Ilabshakeh not only ecoffs at the military power of Judaia and Egypt, but ridicules the idea that Jehovah can deliver Jerusalem if the Assytians attlick it. l<Hearken not unto Hezekiah," be says," when he pernuadet…
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imitate him. But every merely human model we.a Imperfect; eaoh led hie followora more or less astray. It is our happiness to have a perfect Model-a real Person; OM whose character is so clearly depicted that we cannot mistake it; One whom we may feel t.o be indeed a Friend; One whom we may at once revere and love. 2…
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Bacon, "It wns prettily devised of lEeop; the fly sat upon the axletree of the chariot- wbeel, and snid, 'What a dust do I raise I' So there are some vain persons, that what- soever goeth alone or moveth upon greater means, if they have ever so little hand in it, .they think It ia they that carry it." But " All servic…
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Vers. 24--34.-The mighty l,a,id low. I. ENCOURAGEMENT AGAINST FEAR. Let not Judah fear the Assyrian, who, like the Egyptian in the days of yore, wields over her the rod of the slave-driver. In a short time, the hot tide of Divine wrath• will pass from Israel, and the Assyria.ns will in turn feel it. 'l'he·scourge th…
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Vera. 5--19.-Man in·his folly and God in his righteousness. We have a graphic picture here of- I. MAN IN BIS FOLLY. Under tbe dominion of tho folly which is born of sin, man: L Indulge.~ in designs which are beyond his strength. (Ver. 7.) It is "in his heart" to do much greater things, often to work much greater wick…
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Must not truth, virtue, piety, capitulate e.t its summons and leave their treasures to iii impious h1m<ls? So was it with sin generally when the Saviour appeared, to lift up the stnndard of the cross agninst its power, So has it been, again and again, with the forces of superstition, scepticism, vice, ungodliness, as t…
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terrible fMturus close beside it, as may be illustrated from the great and rich European cities of our day. Wealth has a tendency to go in the direction of classes; it drains away from some classes, and so alienates and embitters them, especially as the result of Relf- irnlulgcnce is to harden a. man's heart against…
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God of.oqe of the little ate.tee which, they would be obliged to overrun. Assyria and He. proud king were only Jehovah'e rod and staff, executing for him the fierceness of his indignation. AsRyria was now as much the servant of God judging and punishing Syria and Israel, as the Hebrews had been the servants of God in e…
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bird fune the air with it.a waving wing but hastens to do the tord'a bidding. The world is full of tools in the hands of God. As we ascend in the scale of creation wo only find that highp- beings have higher work to do; they are more subtle tools, set to do more skilful work, but they never cease to be tools. Mah may b…
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glory In the life of the Lord Jesus Christ on the earth? It comes out of the fact that even he, in his earthly manifestation, was a. tool In the hands of God, and liked to be a tool. He fitted his mind into the mind of God 110 as to say, "Lo, I come to do thy will, 0 God ; " "My meat and my drink is to do the will of m…
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EXPOSITION. the scent of water it will bud, and bring CHAPTER XL forth boughs like a plant"). " The stem of Vers. 1-9.-A RENEWED PROPHECY OF Jesse" must mean the house of David, for lllESsIAH Al\'D OF ms Kl:NGDOM. This chapter there is but one Jesse (lBhai) in Scripture- i;; closely connected with the preceding. Dav…
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o.lso to co.rry out thought Into act; (3) other words the.t evor came from a. hume.n "The knowledge nnd the fear of the Lord,". mouth. In the le.lit day words from his or ao9uctintnnce with tho true will of God, mouth will consign to everlasting life or to eombrned with the tleterminntion to eo.rry everlasting destr…
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another deadly serpent, perhaps the Daboia he abides for ever (Matt. nviii. 20), The tMnthina (Tristmm, 'Natural Hist. of the Shechiaa.h of his presence makes the Ohuroh Bible'). "glorious" (litorally, "a glory") through• Ver. !l.-Ky holy mounta.in. All the out all ages; but the glory will not fully Jewish Chnrd1 is a…
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wo.e Sueo., and in Ieaiah'11 tim.e it was an ahall not prevent the return of the Jewish lmporto.nt country, frequently at war with exiles from distant countries (vere. 15, 16). Aeeyria. Shino.r w~e an ancient no.me of Ver. 14. - They ehall fty upon the Be.bylonia (Gen. x. 10; xi.I-9). The word shoulders of the Phililti…
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'Whereby God "establisbed the hel\'nlns •• {Prov. iii. 19; viii. 2'7); or )?Ollslbly that still more rec•,0n<lito faculty which Jebo\"&h "possessed in the begin\\ing of his way, beforo his works of old" (Prov. viii. 22). Being distinguished from. "undetstnnding," "rounsel," and "knowledge of God," it must apparently…
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enrigninnry civil wars, so now the lord& of the ;'World ·seemed minded to destroy them- selves by their vices. Men were denuded of all •that was really good, arrd, surrounded on .e,11 sides· by the thick clouds of a blinded conscience, they caught with wild eagerness at the grosse~t sensual enjoyments, in the wild tumu…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-9.-2'/M, t'Dfning of tM Messiah. I. Hre ORIGIN, "From Ishai'a worn stem a shoot will sprout forth, and a green branch burst forth from his roots." From the stock of David, now fallen very low, the coming Deliverer will arise in all the vigour of youth. Seldom does the great man com…
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glowing words, and believe that but e. step may carry us into a world where it is realized by nil. The prophecy is e.lready fulfilled for us if Gcd has made a heaven of hope in our heo.rts.-J. Vere. 10-16.-Judah and the nati()'l'l,8. I. lloNOUB TO THE ROOT OF JUDAH. The scion from the ancient trunk will be honoured fa…
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II. HIS Th'"TITTTIVE PERCEPTION OF THE '.BEST AND HIGHEST. In "him was the spirit of wisdom and understanding." He distinguished at once the false from the true, the glit.t.ering show from the genuine good, the passing pleasnre from the abiding joy, the fictitious gain from the invaluable heritage, the vanity of cnr…
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_ Ver. 6'.-The leading of a little child: Sunday scliooi sermon. "And a little child shall lead them." The reduction of the fierceness of wild animals to such tameness that a little child may lead them is a very beautiful, poetical picture of the transfor- mation of the worst of the wicked to tbe excellency of the Chri…
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Vers. 11, 12.-The 'f'ejuge of tl,e 'f'emnant. Allusion is here made again to "the remnant" (see eh. x. 20-22), who are spoken of in the following verse (ver. 12) as "the outcasts" and " the dispersed." The remnant of a thing or of a community is not the choice part, but rather that which is left when everything (every …
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weak, the disregarded, the despised, the unbefriended, whom our Lord treated most graciously, and whom he specially commended to our sympathy and succo\ll' (see Me.tt. xii. 20)? Unto such, if they are his disciples, he will multiply his favours, and on them pour out his richest e.nd most abounding grace. There are "rem…
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would do so in nnother, by his overcoming might making the patbwo.y from Egypt and the highway from Assyria, so will he interpose on behalf of the spiritual forces which arc doing bis work in the world. He will make that possible nnd practicable which seems imp,,ssible and imprncticable; will enable the champions of hi…
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eumple; (2) of wise teaching; (3) of gracioufi healings; (4) of heroic suITerings; (5) of eternal triumph over sin. Moral and spiritual fruitnge answering to the needs of thirsting and hungry men. Fruit which was the" Bread of life." The despised tree of David at last sent forth a sucker, which swiftly grew into a tree…
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Ver. 9.-The Christian "go'lden year." Isaiah's relief, from the burdens, sine, and sorrows of his times, is his anticipation of the coming days of Messiah, which were to ancient Jews their "golden year." Isaiah's visions break in on his records of evil and prophetic denunciations, and lie like pools of blue in a clo…
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Ver. 10.-The centre of attraction /or the whole world. " An ensign of the people ; to it shall the Gentiles seek." In prophetic form we have here expressed the truth which Meeele.h himself expressed when he ea.id, ".And I, if I he lifted up, will dra.w e.11 men unto me." All humanity ls :fi~ured a.s turning to look on …
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EXPOSITION. he.st revealed them unto babes" (Matt. :Ii. CHAPTER XII. 25), where it is only the last clause that ex- Vers. 1-6.-TIIE SONG OF TlliNXSG!VING presses the trne object of the thanksgiving. OF THE UNITED CHUBCH. On each of her Comfortedst; rather, hast comfort-ea,, since the deliverances the Church is boun…
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HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-6.-C'hristian thank~giving-its principal characteristics. There is so much allusion in this thanksgiving song to the" song of Moses," that Isaiah cannot but be supposed to intend some comparison between the two. The occasion, however, of their utterance is so different, and their scale and method o…
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HOMILIES BY VARIOUS AUTHORS. Vers. 1-6.-A hymn of paise. Some critics say that the l&ngu&ge and the tone of thought &re so different here from that of Isai&h, that the hymn cannot be from his pen. The theory seems probable enough that "a copyist or reader, who beheld with joy a fulfilment of the words in eh. xi. 15…
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I. WATEB MUBT BID DBA WN, Cert.ainly. The wells of truth are deep and clear, but we must come hither in ono sense to draw. It is quite true that the woman of Samaria at Jacob's well said to the Saviour," Give me this water, tha.t I thirst not, neither come hither to draw," and that Jesus told her the water he should gi…
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I. THE SUPREME ACT OF Gon's GOODNESS. "God is my Salvation." He has been wonderfully gracious to us in bestowal-in the gifts of our being, of our spiritual nature with its nricd capacities, of our phy~ical nature with .all its organs of activity and enjoyment, of our human relationships, of a rich and beautiful dwellin…
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peculiarly precious- to those who first heard them. They eonnd very musical to ne, but they must seem more melodious still to the Oriental ear. We know that water is an invaluable thing. hut it ie only they who have lived or travelled in tropical countries thot app1·eciate a.II that is meant by burning drought or by re…
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Ver. 2.-Hol,y joy in God. In each nationa~ h_istory there is some one surpassingly great event. A Thermopylm for Greece; a Le1ps1c for Germany; a Moscow for Russia; a Waterloo for England. The Jews had one great event, supreme in its influence on their national life. By his relation to that event God would even be kno…
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over wo.,ee, on the surface of its sea; It can waken our faculty of song, it can fill our life with its joy in God, It is well, however, for us to distinguish between "happiness" and "joy," It would be true to say that religion does not promise happiness, it promises joy. It would even be true to s11y, that religion do…
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I. OrrR LIA BILlTY Tu 'FEAR. 1. As dependent creatures. 2, •Because of the great mysteries of existence that a.re around us-mY11teries of God; of self; of sin; of provi- dence; of judgment; of the future. 3. In view of the possibility of our o,vn failure from goodness. II. THE POWER OF FAITH TO OVERCOVR FEAR. Trust …
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EXPOSITiON. a.rid to designate "the Aseyro-Ba.bylonia.n CHAPTER XIII. Empire." He thinks that '' Babel " beads THE BURDEN, OF BABYLON, The series of the list on . account of Assyria's position. prophecieswbich commenc~ with this chapter under Tigle.th-Pileser and Shalmaneser, in a.nd continues to the close of eh. xx…
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on the impposition tha,t it was thus early(about Babylon with mountains, when he derives it 725 n.o.) revealed to him that Ba,bylonia, from Ararat (oomp. Gen. viii. 4) Minni WRB the great enemy to be fee.red-the ulti- (Armenia), and Ashchene.z (Jer. U. 27). At mate destroyer of Judah and Jeruea,lem, the any rate, th…
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e1,'d8-jecit, effudit. However this may be, Ver. 12.-1 will make a man more preotou the word is certainly used in the later times than line gold (cornp. eh. iv. 1). Population mainly to express God's power to visit and she.II be so diminished that man she.II be thE punish, and the present passage might per- most highly…
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eince hie time had boon unmentioned by any m~ldi appenr to have been !'rigin1tlly one or BRCl'<"O writer; nnd, RB II. limng nation, he.a the Tl)any tribes by whioh Dabylonio. W0,8 only just eome within the range of Israelite peopled at an early dCLte. From the ex• vision, by the f11.ct that, when Sargon de- pression…
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times make their Jnirs in the ruins (Rich, defended by many, who think Isaiah migM • First Memoir,' p, G9; Ker Porter, ''fre.vels,' draw upon eurre11t beliefs for some feo.tnrea vol. ii. p. 342). Doleful creatures ; in the of hie description. Dr. Ke.y gives" bo.l,oone," originnl, ol,1,im. What animal is meant we since …
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