. Notes, critical, illustrative, and practical, on the book of Job, with a new translation and an introductory dissertation by Albert Barnes. Printed from the author's rev. ed., with a pref. by E. Henderson . danimals of Egypt and Ethiopia, the river-horse and the crocodile areassociated in the same group, in the river Nile. The crocodile wasformerly found in abundance in Lower Egypt and the Delta, butit now limits the extent of its visits northward to the districtsabout Manfaloot, and the hippopotamus is no longer seen in LowerEthiopia. Neither the hippopotamus nor the crocodile appear tohave
. Notes, critical, illustrative, and practical, on the book of Job, with a new translation and an introductory dissertation by Albert Barnes. Printed from the author's rev. ed., with a pref. by E. Henderson . danimals of Egypt and Ethiopia, the river-horse and the crocodile areassociated in the same group, in the river Nile. The crocodile wasformerly found in abundance in Lower Egypt and the Delta, butit now limits the extent of its visits northward to the districtsabout Manfaloot, and the hippopotamus is no longer seen in LowerEthiopia. Neither the hippopotamus nor the crocodile appear tohave been eaten by the ancient Egyptians. Pliny mentions themedicinal properties of both of them (xxviii. 8), and Plutarch affirmstliat the people of Apollinopolis used to eat the crocodile (de 50) ; but this does not appear to have been a usual says that some of the Egyptians consider the crocodilesacred, Avhile others make war upon it; and those who live aboutThebes and the lake Moeris (in the Arsinoite nome), hold it in greatveneration, ii. 69. The following engraving, from the Pictorial Bible,will furnish an idea of the form of the crocodile. In some cases the m^ ¥fM \ir ^^/i. crocodile was treated with the greatest respect, and kept up at con-siderable expense ; it Avas fed and attended with the most scrupulouscare ; geese, fish, and various meats were dressed purposely for it;they ornamented its head with ear-rings, and its feet with bracelets 326 JOB. and necklaces of gold and artificial stones; it was rendered tameby kind treatment, and after death tlie body was embalmed in asumptuous manner. In other parts of Egypt, however, the animalwas held in the greatest abhorrence, and they lost no opportuuitj ofdestroying it. See Wilkinsons Manners and Customs of the AncientEf/i/ptia7is, \o\. iii. p. 75, seq. The word here rendered leviathan(irp?) occurs only in this place and in eh. iii. S ; Psa. Ixxiv. 14 ; ; Isa. xxvii. 1. In all these places it i
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