272 On the Animnh designated in the Scriptures by 



Job xli. 15, 16, IT. I am not aware that there is any evidence 

 of the Megalosaurus having possessed similar armour. 



AVith respect to Behemoth, I will not venture to assert that we 

 shall arrive at the same assurance what species of animal is meant 

 by the term in Job ; but, upon the plainest and fairest principles 

 of critical interpretation, we can demonstrate, that no saurian of 

 any kind is meant, but one of the larger herbivorous mammalia. 

 Behemah, plur. Behemoth, is the very term which the Hebrews 

 use to express these, as can be proved by satisfactory references ; 

 as, for example, Levit. xxvii. 9, " If it be a beast (behemah) of 

 which men bring an offering unto the Lord." The Hebrews 

 offered only beasts that divide the hoof and chew the cud. 

 Gen. xxxiv. 23, " Shall not their cattle, and their substance, and 

 all beasts of theirs (bchemetham), be ours .^" 



The author of Job was conversant with the records of the 

 creation in Genesis, and with the histories of Adam and of Cain 

 and Abel, as is demonstrated by obvious allusions which he 

 makes to them. For example, among many others that might 

 be referred to, the following passages clearly establish that fact. 

 Gen. i. 26, " And God said, Let us make man in our image, 

 after our likeness," &c. ; verse 27th, " So God created man in 

 his own image, in the image of God created he him." Gen. ii. 7, 

 " And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, 

 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life ; and man be- 

 came a living soul." These passages are clearly alluded to in 

 Job X. 8, " Thine hands have made me, and fashioned me to- 

 gether round about ;" verse 9lh, " Remember, I beseech thee, 

 that ihou hast made me as the clay ; and wilt thou bring me in- 

 to dust again .?" Job xxvii. 3, " All the while my breath is in 

 me, and the breath of God is in my nostrils." Job xxxii. 8, 

 " But there is a spirit in man ; and the inspiration of the Al- 

 mighty giveth them understanding." Job xxxiii. 4, " The Spi- 

 rit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath 

 given me life." Gen. i. 6, 7, " And God said. Let there be a 

 firmament in the mids'. of the waters, and let it divide the wa- 

 ters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and di- 

 vided the waters which were under the firmament from the wa- 

 ters which were above the firmament.'* Alluded to in Job xxvi. 

 8, " He bindeth up the waters in his thick clcud, and the cloud 



