The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . ^ POLE STAR. PICTURE OF THE CONSTELLATIONS HBECULES AND THE SEEPENT. (^Copied hy the Author.)His hand tcoundetk ihejleeing serpent. Fo
The Book of Job : translated from the Hebrew on the basis of the authorized version : explained in a large body of notes, critical and exegetical, and illustrated by extracts from various works on antiquities, geography, science, etc., also by eighty woodcuts and a map ; with six preliminary dissertations, an analytical paraphrase, and Meisner's and Doederlein's selection of the various readings of the Hebrew text from the collations of Kennicott and De Rossi . ^ POLE STAR. PICTURE OF THE CONSTELLATIONS HBECULES AND THE SEEPENT. (^Copied hy the Author.)His hand tcoundetk ihejleeing serpent. For an explanation of the above, see the Note on this verse. See also theIllustration on the next page, taken from the mythology of the Egyptians. 4G:2 ILLUSTRATIONS, JOB XXVI. HOETJS KILLING THE SEEPENT. JOB XXVII. 18. He hath built his house as a moth. There are many various species of thisinsect, all included by Linnaeus in the genus phalcena. The caterpillars fromwhich the various species of the perfect insect are produced exhibit nearly thesame variety of appearance as the moths themselves. Some are large, and othersextremely minute; many are furnished with ten, others with twelve or fourteenfeet, whilst the largest have sixteen. All these caterpillars, after having shedtheir skin one or more times, spin for themselves the materials of a habitation, inwhich they are to undergo their transformation. The particular species of mothalluded to in the text is probably the clothes-moth {tinea vestianella), and its houseand its mode of building it is thus described in the Popular Encyclopaedia,from which the above extract also is taken:— The caterpillar begins to form a nest as soon as it quits the egg. For thispurpose, having spun a thin coating of silk roun
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