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Job 39:26

Job 39:26

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain

the hawk was a symbol of deity with the Egyptians, and was reverenced and worshipped by them . Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 1. Vid. Aristot. de Part. Animal. l. 4. c. 14. Apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 2.

c. 14. col. 226. Pirush in Exod. xxiii. 19. De Animal. l. 14. c. 13. Bibliothec. l. 3. p. 162. Geograph. l. 16. p. 531. Calmet's Dictionary in the word "Ostrich". Descriptio Africae, l. 6. p. 601, 605, 613.

l. 9. p. 766. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 8. Ut supra, (Apud Bochart. Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 2.) c. 15. col. 235. Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 6. c. 7. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 9. Ibid. Ut supra, (Apud Bochart.

Hierozoic. par. 2. l. 2. c. 15.) col. 26. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 36. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 8. Plutarch. de Iside & Osyr. Strabo. Geograph. l. 17. p. 559, 562. Diodor. Sicul. l. 1. p. 78. Clement. Alex.

Stromat. l. 5. p.

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