land trembled at the 1ound of the neighing raise this idea. The thunder of the aaptaina, of his strong ones"). and the 1houting. On the great noise made Ver. 21.-He paweth in the valley, Co.non by adva.noing a.rmies in ancient timeR, see Cook appositely oompe.res Virgil's "on.vo.t 2 Kings vii. 6; Isa. v. 28-30; Jer. viii. 16, tellurom" (' Georg.,' ih, 87, 88), and Prof6ll80r etc. Leo Pope's expression, the.t " ere they etart Ver. 26.-Doth the hawk fly (or, soar) by a thousund stops are lost." The verb ie thy wisdom 1 The hawk's strength Gf wing in the plum!, because a line of cavalry, is extraordinary, and one Gf the gre"t,·st ot' o.11 po.wing nod eager to be off, is intended natural marvels. Can Job claim to h'lvo to bo represontcd. And rejoioeth ill hie contrived it? Many as have been tho ■trength. Nothing ie more re.nrnrkable than attempts made, human ingenuity bas 11ot the eagerne8B e.nd joy which war-horses yet devised anything that can fly. Ami show when the battle approo.chee. They stretch her wings toward the south 1 Migrate, o.re genernlly more excited than their riders. i.e., when winter approaches, to the warmer He goeth on to meet the armed men; lite- southern regions. Few things in nature are rally, he ruahetl, upon the weapons. Equally more remarkable than the instinct of migra- true in ancient and in modem wo.rfnre. 'l'he tory hirds. main use of cavalry is in the charge (see Ver. 27.-Doth the eagle mount up at thy Denison's • Hist. of Oavalry,' pp. 507-512). command 1 The enumeration of natural Ver. 22.-He mooketh at fear, and is not marvels 6nds with the eagle, the monarch a11righted ; neither turneth he back from of birds, 88 it began with the lion, the king the sword. "The cavalry of modern times of beasts ( eh. xxxviii. 39). The power of will rush undismayed upon the line of the eagle to "mount up," notwithst.anding opposing bayonets" (Professor Lee). " We its great size and weight, is very surprising. do not believe that a body of in fan try ever The species intended in this place is pro- existed that, with the bayonet alone, un- bably the golden eagle (Aquila chrysaiitos) or supported by fire, could have checked the else the imperial eagle (Aquila heliaca), determined charge of good horsemen " which are both of them common iu Syria (Denison, p. 510). and Mesopotamia. And make her nest on Ver. 23.-The quiver rattleth against him, high 1 'l'he nests of eagles are almost In the .Assyrian soulpturee the quiver of always built on lofty, generally on inacces- mounted archers is often hung at the side, sible, rocks. .Aristotle SBJB, no,oiivi-,u 5e iustead of at the back. In this position it aln-4!' (sc. TIU VEOT'Tlas), otl,c Iv 1re8i11oir -r&1ra,s, would rattle against the neck of the war- m.V,' ;,, {,,/n/>..ois µd.A,a.-c µ~v, «al ;,, Tt<Tpau horse (see 'Ancient Monarchies,' vol. ii. l,,,roKp-fiµvois (comp. Jcr. xlix. 16). p. 25). The glittering spear and the shield Ver. 28.-She dwelleth and abideth on the would occasionally strike against his neck rook, upon the orag of the rock, and the or his shoulders. strong place; literally, the tooth of the rock. Ver. 24.-He swalloweth the ground with The craggy summits of roek.. bear a re- fieroeness and rage. This is a common semblance to the fangs of a tooth. Hence metflphor to denote the rapidity with which we have in Fro.nee the Dent du Chat, and the horse covers the space that lies before in Switzerland the Dent de Jama.n and the him. Virgil has, " Corripiunt spa.tie." Dent du Midi. (' lEneid,' v. 316); Siliue Italious, '' CCLm- Ver. 29.-From thence she seeketh the pum vole.tu rapoere " (iii. 308); Shake- prey, and her eyes behold afar oft'. Aristotle speaTe, "He seemed in running to devour the gives this as a reason for the lofty fiight way." .Arab poets have similar ex:r.ressions of the eagle, 'T,j,oii 5e ....T/%Tl%t., 01rwr ETl (see Boche.rt, ' Hieroz.,' pt. i. bk. 1i. o. 8). ..->..,ia.-011 T01to11 «c9opi, The keen sight of Neither believeth he that it is the sound of the eagle is recognized by modern savanta: the trumpet. (So Schultens, Canon Cook, "Aquila, genre d'oisea.ux de proie . . . and oar Revisers.) But most recent critics caracterise par un bee BBDB <lentelure et prefer to render, "He sto.ndeth not still droit a ea base jusqu'aupres de l'extremile, when the trumpet soundeth,'' CLnd compare ob. il se courbe beaucoup; par dee pied~ Virgil's "Stare loco nesoit" (' Georg.,' iii. robustes armes d'ongles aigus et tranchantl!, 84). par leu.r vue perfante et leur gro.n<le ~n- Ver. 25.-He saith among the trumpets, vergure" (' Diotionnaire Uui,erselle Jes Ha, ha! literally, at the trumpet; i.e. at the Sciences,' p. 25). sound of the trumpet. The utterance, "Ha, Ver. 30.-Her young ones also auok up I1a I" (heakh), is an imitntion of the horse's blood. It bas been assorted that this is not snort or neigh. And he smelleth the batUe the case, since they are fed on carrion afar o:lf. Not merely predo.gee it, 88 Pliny (Merx). But, as eagles are known to seize 1ays (" Equi prmsagiuut pugnam," 'Hist. fawns, hares, lambs, and other small animRls, Nat.,' viii. 42), or porooives it, but seems to t111d transport them to their eyries, their 1ee11i it. The opeu and quivering nostrils young must oerto.inly be nourished, in po.rt, 634 '1'H1!: 'BOOK OF JOB.
on the 1le1b or anlmalil newly kiDed. Ab1l they eithtir feed !In the dead bodi011 of the where C;be lltt.b. 111'8, there is ■be (-Clomp. elain, or tear out their ent?'&lle, or sometime■ Deut. ll][j, 18; Mstt. niv. 28; Lulnl xvii. oarry up aloft the 'deol\pitated h81d of some 87). Eaglea, or at eny mte birds .. more unfortunalie soldier (■ee the • TN.n1ao\lon1 rei,embling ee.glee thRn vultures," are oom- of the Sooiety of Biblioal Arohaology,' mlnly repreeentoo on the Assyrian monu- vol. viii. p. 69, and pl■. ii. and iii.). men.ta, eepeoially in battle-l!08nea, where