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must have been offered immediately after the former sad 

 event, would have caused the annihilation of a species; 

 which, in conjunction with the circumstance of Noah 

 being directed to admit clean animals into the ark by 

 sevens the male and his female, afforded no slight ground 

 for Lightfoot's supposition alluded to in the text. He 

 thus expresses his opinion. " Bestia mund& creata sunt 

 septena, tria paria ad prolem, et reliqua singular Adamo 

 in sacrificium post lapsum : at immundcz tantummodo 

 bind, ad generis propagationem." 1 Lightfoot here speaks 

 of three pairs and a half, and some writers quoted by 

 Poole, seem to think, that the same number were received 

 into the ark, and that the seventh, a male, was intended 

 for sacrifice after the deluge; others think there were 

 seven pairs. 



NOTE 5, p. 11. In the fiercest enmity and opposition 

 to each other. There was a show-man, who in the year 

 1831, exhibited on one of the London bridges, as I was 

 informed by a friend upon whose accuracy I could rely, 

 the animals here spoken of in a state of reconciliation. 

 In one cage were cats, rats, and mice, and in another 

 hawks and small birds living together in the utmost 

 harmony, and without any attempt on the part of the 

 predaceous ones to injure their natural prey. 



NOTE 6, p. 16. Concerning the kind of which inter- 

 preters differ. The Septuagint renders the Hebrew word 

 CDJ3, which our translation renders lice, by <r*cvi<pes, which 

 is supposed to mean the mosquito or gnat, but I cannot 

 help thinking with Bochart, 2 that it rather means the 



1 Lightfooti Opera, Ed. Leusden. i. 154. conf. 2. 

 _ 2 Hierozoic. 574. 



