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ingenious remarks of Professor Liechtenstein a render 
probable, that he distinguishes as clean insects the Fabri- 
cian genera Gryllus, Locusta, Truxalis, and Acketa, which 
a person unobservant of these animals would have con- 
founded together. This discrimination presupposes this 
knowledge of their general characters, not only in the 
Jewish lawgiver, but also in the people themselves to 
whom the precept was addressed, to whom it would 
otherwise have been dc ignotis. 
Allusion is made in Holy Writ to insects of almost 
every one of the modern Orders b . They are represented 
as employed divinitm sometimes to annoy the enemies 
of the Israelites, and at others to punish that people 
themselves when they apostatized from their God. The 
prophets frequently introduce them as symbols of ene- 
mies that lay waste or oppress the church : as the j^y of 
the Ethiopians or Egyptians ; the bee of the Assyrians ; 
and the loaisl of the followers of Mahomet and other 
similar destroyers c . That Solomon, amongst other ob- 
jects to the investigation of which his divinely inspired 
wisdom directed him, did not deem insects, those "Little 
things upon the earth d ," unworthy of his attention, we 
know from Scripture e ; but as his physical writings are 
lost, we are ignorant whether he treated of their natural 
arrangement, their economy and history, or of the in- 
struction they afford analogically considered. Where 
a Linn. Trans, iv. 51—. See Levit. xi. 20 — . 
b The Neuroptera appears to be the only Order not so signalized. 
It is worthy of notice that insects are usually noticed generically 
and not specifically in Scripture. On the insects of Scripture see 
Bochart Hierozoic. ii. 1. iv. c Isai. vii. 18. Joel ii. Rev. ix. 3. 
d Prov. xxx. 24—. e 1 Kings iv. 33. 
