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eas? Shall thy companions make
a banquet of him? shall they part
him among the merchants? Lay
thine hand upon him, remember
the battle, do no more. Behold,
the hope of him is in vain: shall
not one be cast down even at the
Fight of him? None is so fierce

that dare stir him up: who then
is able to stand before me? In
his neck remaineth strength, and
sorrow is turned into joy before
him. His heart is as firm as a
stone; yea, as hard as a piece of

the nether millstone. When he

shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their dust made fat with fatness.

WOLF.

ITS FEROCITY.

Gen. xlix, 27. Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.

of the forest shall slay them, and Jer. v, 6. Wherefore a lion out a wolf of the evenings shall spoil raiseth up himself, the mighty are their cities: every one that goeth them, a leopard shall watch over afraid: by reason of breakings out thence shall be torn in pieces: they purify themselves. Upon because their transgressions are earth there is not his like, who is made without fear. He behold-many, and their backslidings are increased. eth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

Ps. lxxiv, 14. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.

Ps. civ, 26. There go the ships:

there is that leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein.

Isa. xxvii, 1. In that day the LOED with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that

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Deut. xxxiii, 17. His glory is like the firstling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns; with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth: and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.

Job xxxix, 9, 11, 12. Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by thy crib? Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him? Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?

Ps. xxii, 21. Save me from the lion's mouth: for thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns. P3. xcii, 10. But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.

Isa. xxxiv, 7. And the unicorns

Ezek. xxil, 27. Her princes in the midst thereof are like wolves and to destroy souls, to get disravening the prey, to shed blood, honest gain.

more fierce than the evening Hab. i, 8. Their horses *** are wolves. * *

Matth. vil, 15. Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.

Matth. x, 16. Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

John x, 12. But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not,

seeth the wolf coming, and leav

eth the sheep, and fleeth: and the eth the sheep. wolf catcheth them, and scatter

Acts xx, 29. For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

PROPHETIC SYMBOLS. Dan. vii, 3-5, 7, 11, 12, 17. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour

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Gen. xxv, 27. And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob icas a plain man, dwelling in tents.

Gen. xxvii, 3, 5, 30. Now there fore take, I pray thee, thy weago out to the field, and take me pons, thy quiver and thy bow, and

some venison; And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it. And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of

blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from

his hunting.

Judges xv, 4, 5. And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails. And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.

1 Sam. xxiv, 11. Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

Job x, 16. For it increaseth. Thou huntest me as a fierce lion: and again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.

roe from the hand of the hunter, Prov. vi, 5. Deliver thyself as a and as a bird from the hand of the

fowler.

Çant. ii, 15. Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

the night visions, and behold a
fourth beast, dreadful and terrible,
and strong exceedingly; and it
had great iron teeth; it devoured
and brake in pieces, and stamped
the residue with the feet of it: and Isa. 11, 20. Thy sons have faint-
it was diverse from all the beastsed, they lie at the head of all the
that were before it; and it had ten streets, as a wild bull in a net;

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Gen. vil, 3, 14. Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.

Gen. xl, 17, 19. And in the uppermost basket there was of all

manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh;
and the birds did eat them out of
Yet
the basket upon my head.
within three days shall Pharaoh
lift up thy head from off thee, and
shall hang thee on a tree; and
the birds shall eat thy flesh from
off thee.

1 Sam. xvii, 44. And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.

1 Kin. iv, 33. He spake also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

1 Kin. xiv, 11. ... And him that dieth in the field shall the

fowls of the air eat: for the LORD hath spoken it.

Ps. xi, 1. In the LORD put I my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee as a bird to your mountain?

birds round about are against
her; come ye, assemble all the
beasts of the field, come to de-

vour.

that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

Isa. xvi, 2. For it shall be, that, as a wandering bird cast out of the nest, so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon.

Ezek. xxxix, 17. And, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GoD; Speak unto every feathered fowl, and to every beast of the field, Assemble yourselves, and come; Jer. xxii, 23. O inhabitant of gather yourselves on every side Lebanon, that makest thy nest in to my sacrifice that I do sacrifice the cedars, how gracious shalt for you, even a great sacrifice up-thou be when pangs come upon on the mountains of Israel, that thee, the pain as of a woman in ye may eat flesh, and drink blood. travail!

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Jer. v, 27. As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

Obad. 4. Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest' among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.

Hab. ii, 9. Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

Matth. xiii, 32. Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Luke ix, 58. And Jesus said Rev. xviii, 2. And he cried unto him, Foxes have holes, and mightily with a strong voice, say-birds of the air have nests; but the ing. Babylon the great is fallen, Son of man hath not where to lay is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.

NEST.

Deut. xxii, 6, 7. If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young: But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be P3. lxxviii, 27. He rained flesh well with thee, and that thou also upon them as dust, and fea-mayest prolong thy days. thered fowls like as the sand of the sea.

Ps. 1, 11. I know all the fowls of the mountains.

Isa. xviii, 6. They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and to the beasts of the earth and the fowls shall summer upon them, and all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

Isa. xxxi, 5. As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem; defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.

Isa. xlvi, 11. Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executeth my counsel from a far country: yea, I have spoken it, I will also bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it.

Jer. xii, 9. Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the

Job xxix, 18. Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

P3. lxxxiv, 3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.

Ps. civ, 12, 17. By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches. Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.

Prov. xxvii, 8. As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.

Isa. x, 14. And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs

his head.

BAT.

Isa. ii, 20. In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats.

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Gen. vill, 8-12. Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark. And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; and the dove came in to him in the evening, and, lo, in

her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth. And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove, which returned not again unto him any more.

Pз. Iv, 6. And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

Ps. lxviii, 13. Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.

Ps. lxxiv, 19. O deliver not the soul of thy turtledove unto the multitude of the wicked: forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever.

Cant. 1, 15. Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair, thou hast doves' eyes.

Cant. ii, 14. O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice; and thy countenance is comely.

they call to Egypt, they go to
Assyria.

Hosea xi, 11. They shall trem-
ble as a bird out of Egypt, and as
a dove out of the land of Assyria:
and I will place them in their
houses, saith the LORD.

Nahum ii, 7. And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the bill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD. Behold, he shall come up and fly as the cagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the heart of a woman in her pangs. mighty men of Edom be as the

Matth. iii, 16. And Jesus, when swifter than the eagles of the Lam. iv, 19. Our persecutors are he was baptized, went up straight-heaven: they pursued us upon the way out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto mountains, they laid wait for us him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him.

Matth. xxi, 12. And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves.

John i, 32. And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit scending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.

in the wilderness.

Micah i, 16. Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.

Matth. xxiv, 28. For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Luke xvii, 37. And they ande-swered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

Cant. v, 2, 12. I sleep, but my heart John ii, 14, 16. And found in the waketh: it is the voice of my be-temple those that sold oxen and loved that knocketh, saying, Open sheep and doves, and the changers to me, my sister, my love, my of money sitting: And said unto dove, my undefiled: for my head them that sold doves, Take these is filled with dew, and my locks things hence; make not my with the drops of the night. His Father's house an house of meryes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

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Isa. xxxviii, 14. I did mourn as a dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Isa. lix, 11. We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: We look for judgment, but there is one, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Isa. Ix, 8. Who are these that fy as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Jer. xlvili, 28. O ye that dwell la Moab, leave the cities, and well in the rock, and be like the love that maketh her nest in the aides of the hole's mouth.

Ez. vii, 16. But they that escape of them shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like duves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

Hosea vii, 11. Ephraim also is ke a silly dove without heart:

chandise.

EAGLE.

ITS POWERFUL PINIONS, ETC.

I did unto the Egyptians, and how
Exod. xix. 4. Ye have seen what
bare you on eagles' wings, and
brought you unto myself.

Deut. xxviii, 49. The LORD shall
bring a nation against thee from
far, from the end of the earth, as
swift as the eagle flieth; a nation
whose tongue thou shalt not un-
derstand.

Deut. xxxii, 11. As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings.

Job ix, 26. They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Job xxxix, 27-30. Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place. From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off. Her young ones also suck up blood: and where the slain are, there is she.

Jer. xlviii, 40. For thus saith the LORD; Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread his wings

over Moab.

Jer. xlix, 16, 22. Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride

HAWK.

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a wailing like the dragons, and up all that day, and all that night,
mourning as the owls.
and all the next day, and they
gathered the quails: he that
least gathered ten
gathered
homers: and they spread them all
for themselves round
abroad
about the camp.

Isa. xxxiv, 11. The owl also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it the line of confusion and the stones of emptiness.

PARTRIDGE.

Jer. xvii, 11. As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; 80 he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a

fool.

PEACOCK.

1 Kin. x, 22. For the king had at sea a navy of Tharshish with the navy of Hiram: once in three years came the navy of Tharshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

PELICA N.

Ps. cii, 6. I am like a pelican of the wilderness.

POULTRY.

Matth. xxiii, 37. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Matth. xxvi, 34, 74, 75. Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this night, before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew. And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. wept And he went out, and bitterly.

QUAILS.

Exod. xvi, 12, 13. I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel: speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God. And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: and in the morning the dew lay round about

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Matth. x, 31. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

Luke xii, 6. Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

VULTURE.

in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Lam. iii, 52. Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

Hos. vii, 12. When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

Hos. ix, 8. The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.

Amos iii, 5. Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is for him? shall one take up a snare from the earth, and have taken nothing at all?

FISHES.

Exod. vii, 18. And the fish that is in the river shall die, and the river shall stink; and the Egyptians shall loathe to drink of the water of the river.

Num. xi, 22. Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice then? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to suffice them?

Neh. xiii, 16. There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

Ps. civ, 25. So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

Isa. 1, 2. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that Isa. xxxiv, 15. There it cannot redeem? or have I no shall the vultures also be gather-power to deliver? behold, at my ed every one with her mate.

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FOWLING.

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Ps. xci, 3. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.

Ps. cxxiv, 7. Our soul is escaped as a bird out of the snare of the fowlers; the snare is broken, and we are escaped.

Prov. 1, 17. Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any

bird.

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Num. xl, 31, 32. And there went forth a wind from the LORD, Prov. vii, 23. Till a dart strike and brought quails from the sea, bird and let them fall by the camp, as through his liver, as it were a day's journey on this hasteth to the snare, and knoweth side, and as it were a day's jour-not that it is for his life. ney on the other side, round about the camp, and as it were two cubits high upon the face of the earth. And the people stood

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Jonah 1, 17. Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.

Matth. xiv, 17. And they say unto him, We have here but five loaves, and two fishes.

FISHING.

Cant. vil, 4. Thine eyes like the fishpools in Heshbon.

Isa. xix, 8, 10. The fishers also thall mourn, and all they that cast angle into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish. And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

Jer. xvi, 16. Behold, I will send for many fishers, saith the LORD, and they shall fish them; and after will I send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain, and from every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Ezek. xlvii, 10. And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Amos iv, 2. The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with

fishhooks.

Hab. i, 14-17. And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them? They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them In their drag: therefore they reJoice and are glad. Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto their drag, because by them their portion is fat, and their meat plenteous. Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare continually to slay

the nations?

Matth. iv, 18-20. And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men. And they straightway left their nets and followed him.

Matth. xiii, 47-50. Again, the Kingdom of heaven is like unto a het, that was cast into the sea, and rathered of every kind: Which, when it was full, they drew to shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into vessels, but cast the bad away. So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just, And shall east them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Matth. xvii, 27. Notwithstanding, le we should offend them, go

thou to the sea, and cast an hook, I
and take up the fish that first
cometh up; and when thou hast
opened his mouth, thou shalt find
a piece of money: that take, and
give unto them for me and thee.

tude of fishes. And the other disciples came in a little ship; (for they were not far from land, but as it were two hundred cubits,) dragging the net with fishes.

USED AS FOOD.

fish which we did eat in Egypt Num. xi, 5. We remember the freely; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlick.

Luke xxiv, 42. And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.

Marki, 16-20. Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers. And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men. And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him. And when he had gone a little farther thence, he saw James John xxi, 9, 10, 12, 13. As soon the son of Zebedee, and John his then as they were come to land, brother, who also were in the ship they saw a fire of coals there, and mending their nets. And straight-fish laid thereon, and bread. way he called them: and they Jesus saith unto them, Bring of left their father Zebedee in the the fish which ye have now ship with the hired servants, and caught. Jesus saith unto them,

went after him.

Luke v, 2-11. And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets. And he entered into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and

And

prayed him that he would thrust
out a little from the land. And
he sat down, and taught the peo-
ple out of the ship. Now when he
had left speaking, he said unto
Simon, Launch out into the deep,
and let down your nets for a
draught. And Simon answering
said unto him, Master, we have
toiled all the night, and have taken
nothing; nevertheless at thy word
I will let down the net.
when they had this done, they in-
closed a great multitude of fishes:
and their net brake. And they
beckoned unto their partners,
which were in the other ship, that
they should come and help them.
And they came, and filled both
the ships, so that they began to
sink. When Simon Peter saw it,
he fell down at Jesus' knees, say-
ing, Depart from me; for I am a
sinful man, O Lord. For he was
astonished, and all that were with
him, at the draught of the fishes
which they had taken: And so
was also James, and John, the
sons of Zebedee, which were
partners with Simón. And Jesus
said unto Simon, Fear not; from
henceforth thou shalt catch men.
And when they had brought their
ships to land, they forsook all, and
followed him.

Come and dine. And none of the thou? knowing that it was the disciples durst ask him, Who art Lord. Jesus then cometh, and taketh bread, and giveth them, and fish likewise.

FISHGATE.

he built a wall without the city of 2 Chr. xxxiii, 14. Now after this David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put cap tains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Neh. iii, 3. But the fish gate did the sons of Hassenaah build, who also laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

the gate of Ephraim, and above
Neh. xii, 39. And from above
the old gate, and above the fish
gate, and the tower of Hananeel,
and the tower of Meah, even unto
still in the prison gate.
the sheep gate: and they stood

Zeph. 1, 10. And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the LORD, that there shall be the noise of a cry from the fish gate, and an howling from the second, and a great crashing from the hills.

REPTILES.

Gen. vii,8,21. Of clean beasts, and of beasts that are not clean, and of fowls, and of every thing that John xxi, 3, 6, 8. Simon Peter creepeth upon the earth, And all saith unto them. I go a fishing. flesh died that moved upon the They say unto him, We also go earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, with thee. They went forth, and and of beasts, and of every creepentered into a ship immediately; ing thing that creepeth upon the and that night they caught noth-earth, and every man: ing. And he said unto them, Gen. viii, 17, 19. Bring forth with Cast the net on the right side of thee every living thing that is the ship, and ye shall find. They with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, cast therefore, and now they were and of cattle, and of every creepnot able to draw it for the multi-ing thing that creepeth upon the

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