. Birds of the Bible . ssons all around him, and wasca])al)le of speaking of what he learned eomprehensiwly. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and tiiey shall tell thee ; Or, speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ; Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ?In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,And the breath of all mankind. It was Job who indicated that, althoiigli chickens wereunknown in his time, people were eating the eggs of fowlsof some s])ecies when lie asked: Can that which hath no savor be eaten
. Birds of the Bible . ssons all around him, and wasca])al)le of speaking of what he learned eomprehensiwly. But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; And the fowls of the air, and tiiey shall tell thee ; Or, speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee ; Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this ?In whose hand is the soul of every living thing,And the breath of all mankind. It was Job who indicated that, althoiigli chickens wereunknown in his time, people were eating the eggs of fowlsof some s])ecies when lie asked: Can that which hath no savor be eaten without is there any taste in the white of an egg. King David, who said of himself, ^Nly tongue is the])en of a ready writer, unhesitatingly declared: I know all the fowls of the mountains :And the wild beasts of the field are mine. It was David who, in writing of the goodness of theAlmighty to the Israelites, recorded that He rained flesh upon them also as dust, And feathered fowls like as the sand of the Birds were so })lentifid that the Creator enumerated thefowls of the air as one of the methods of destructionwhich should fall upon the Jews; and the son of Sirachwrote in Ecclesiusticus, As birds flying down he sprinkleththe snow. :U IM UDS OF Til K M I HFK Iloplr wcro accustonud to seeing- lari;i flocks in mi-^ Tlir hirds of intoi-ior Africa came up to liil)lclands, and those found there crossed the Mediterranean,each returning wlu-n (hiven by chan<4;es of season. .Krc-niiah ])roved that people of his time knew the hirds, andspoki of tluni Iasiialjy, just as wc do, l)v ncoi-din;^- thatThe stork in the heaven knowtth her appointed times;and the turtle and the crane and tlu swallow observe thetime of their comin<^. It must have been the remcnibrancc of mvriads ofbirds, massed in mi<;ration, which A\as in the mind ofIsaiah when he wrote that beautiful and poetic line, **Asbiids fliying, so A\ill the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem.*He had seen
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