Lanterna Rally

Author: Henry Chichester Hart

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2012-05

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781458969064

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: and resort to graves and cemeteries for that especial purpose. Hence in Lam. v. 18, ' jackals' are also most likely intended. Jackals never hunt alone, but assemble in packs of twenty to fifty or more, as a rule. In this habit they differ entirely from the fox, which is under no circumstances gregarious. From this fact it is most probable that 'jackals' were the animals turned loose in pairs by Samson (Judg. xv. 4) amongst the standing corn of the Philistines, with firebrands tied to their tails. It would be absolutely impossible that any such stratagem should succeed with foxes, who would inevitably pull in opposite directions, no matter how long a line might be given to the brand drawn by each couple. But jackals, accustomed to hunt in droves, might go straight across through fields and crops. Moreover the difficulty of procuring three hundred foxes would be very great, since the animals were very much fewer in number, and would require to be captured singly. An experiment to see how jackals actually would behave under such treatment would be very interesting, if it could be conducted without cruelty. In the Authorized Version the word 'jackal' does not occur. It will be seen, however, that it is probable the animal was intended in many passages. Further instances will be found in the article Behemoth, where I have endeavoured to show that iyyim, translated ' wild beasts of the islands, ' should be rendered 'jackal.' Frog (Heb. yrSS tsephardea). Frogs are mentioned in the Bible in connection with the second of the Egyptian plagues (Exod. viii.), and again in Ps. Ixxviii. 45, cv. 30. In Rev. xvi. 13 uncleanspirits are spoken of as being in the likeness of frogs which came out of the mouth of the dragon. There is only one species of true frog in Egypt at present. Thi..