• ~le belly le cbverecl with jagged smiles"- Ver. 32.-He maketh a path to shine after a thing which Iii trne of the crocodile, but him ; one would think the deep t,, be hoary. scarcely of any other beast. He spre&deth He Imives a white trail behind him a~ he sharp pointed thing■ (rnther, a tl1reahi11g- pa.sees fmm sa.nd-ba.nk to aand-h0,nk throuo-h wain, or a oorn-drao) upon the mire, He the shallows. It is a.a if the Nile had gro;n leaves on the mud on which be has loin, old and put on hoar hairs. i.o,, 11n impression as ofan Oriental threahing- Ver. 33.-Upon earth there is not his like, w11in, Gr oorn-drog, which is "a thick plank who ia made without fear (comp. vers. of timber, stuck full, on the under aide, of 21-29). flints or hcird outling stones armnged in the Ver. 34.-He beholdeth all high thinl7d. form of the pn.l11te or rough tongue of & He looks without fear on everything that cow" (Sir C. Follows, 'Asia Minor,' p. 70): is high and great. Nothing alarms him; The mud-banks on which crocodiles have nothing disturbs his e'luanimity. He is a been lying ore a11id to be scored 1111 over king over all the ohildren (lit.erally, s0111) with such impressions. of pride (comp. eh. xxviii. 8). He feels Ver. 31.-He maketh the deep to boil like himself superior to a.11 other animals that a pot. The rush of the crocodile through come within his ken. They may be "sons .the wo.ter of the stream or pool in which he of pride," but he has more to be proud of dwells causes a stir and a commotion which than the proudest of them. Orclinarily, the is forcibly compared to the boiling of water lion poses a.s " the king of beasts ; " but in a caldron. He ma.keth the sea like a pot here he is, as it were, deposed, and relegated of ointment. It is generally allowed that into the second position (eh. xuviii. 39), by "the see." here is meant the Nile, as in the crncodile being exa.lted into hie pie.cc. Isa. xviii. 2; xix. 5; and Nah. iii 8. The From different points of view, there are swirl of the Nile, &s the crocodile mo.kes his several great beast.a which might be regarded rush, is like the heaving of a l>ot of boiling as the lords of the animal creation. oil or ointment. , _
HOMILETICS. Vere. 1-34.-Jeh011ah to Job: the second answer: 3. Ooncerning leviathan. I. THE ANIMAL INTENDED. 1. A serpentine creature. This implied in the name levia- than, which signifies "a wreathed or twisted animal," as distinguished from the tann-m, or "long-extended monsters" (Gen. i. 21). 2. .An aquatic monste:r. Though amphi- bious as to its habits, the behemoth was essentially a land animal_; the entire descrip- tion of leviathan points to a tenant of the deep (vers. 1, 2, 31, 32). 3. A gigantic crocodile. Believed by earlier interpreters to be the whale, it is now commonly accepted as the crocodile, which, equally with behemoth, frequented the Nile. II. THE :MONSTER DESCRIBED.. 1. Its tvntamable ferocity. (Vers. 1-9.) The idea is presented in a variety of ways. (1) The impossibility of catching the animal ill exhibited. "Canst thou draw out leviathan with au hook'? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?" literally, "or with a cord pressest thou down his tongue," The meaning is that the crocodile cannot be caught like a fish; hence men cannot do with it as fishers do with fish, "put a hook [literally, 'a rope of rushes'] into his nose, or bore his jaw through with a thorn,'' rather "with a hook or ring "-the allusion being to the Egyptian mode of dealing with fish that have been caught. "They passed the stalk of a rush through the gills, aud thus attached them together, in order more con- veniently to carry them home" (Wilkinson's 'Ancient Egyptians,' vol. ii p.121). (2) The impossibility of utilizing the animal is next represented. "Will he make many supplications unto thee? will he speak soft words unto thee?" in order to be spared when caught P-persuading thee, perhaps, that thou canst turn him to good and profit- able account. Well, what canst thou make of him? A bond-servant like one of the domesticated animals? " Will he make a covenant with thee, to take him as a per- petual slave? "-a toy or plaything for thyself or children? "Wilt thou play with him as a little bird? or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens? "-an article of trade for the merchants? Wilt thou kill him and cut him up for the fish-market? "Shall the companions [literally, 'the partners,' i.e. of the fish-guildl banquet of him [ or rather, as the parallel shows, 'trade upon or with him']? shall they part him among the merchants?" literally, "the Canaanite" or Phamician merchants. (3) The impossibility of destroying him is further portrayed, " Canst tho\4 fill his skiii with barbed irons'? JOB, 2 tl fi:38 THE BOOK OF JOB. [oe. Xtt, 1-34,