742 Chap. 47. an Expoftïon upon the Book,of J o B. Vert, 19,2a, 0, may reply from his own ¡hewing out of feveral Authors, that the Crocodile that is nobetter at feeing when much under water, they reaching, Crocodiles eyes are dull while in the water, but out of the water very quick or (harp- fighted, as if there at lad he recovered his eye-fight ; and if fo, he bath no advantage of the Whale in thatparticular. Verf, 19. Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and fparks of fire leap out, That is, fomewhat goes out of his moueh like burning lamps and (parks of fire. This is a demonfiracion of the extream natu- ral heat of Leviathan: There's a continual fire in his mouth;then what is in the kitchin of his ffomack, for the digeffion and con- coion of his meat? If fparks of fire leap out of his mouth, as out of the mouth of a furnace, then wemay conclude, there's a great fire kept within. Verf. zo. Out of his noffrilsgoeth fmoak, Wehad fire before, and now comes fmoak. We ufually fay, Where there's fmoak there it fomeßre; and furely where there is fo great aheat,there mull be or bath been fome fmoak ; Out of Pumus ellaer bis naßrilsgoeth afmoak. What is fmoak ? 'Tis air aduif (fay Ali a ex Phylofophers) Much heat draws out the airy parr of the fewel, feria, A uin. and turns it into fmoak. Leviathan having fuch a fire in his bow- q els, needsmull fmoak goout of his nofirils, which are as a dou- ble chimney to vent it ; or to keep the metaphor in the Text, Sínoekgoetbout of bis nofirìl, As out of a feetbingpot or caldron, The Hebrew is, a blownpot, becaufe blowing makes a pot feeth quickly and fiercely. A Caldron is a great veffel, wherein much may be fodden or boyled at once, and boyling fends out a great futrre or fmoak. The Hebrew word rendred Caldron, properly fignifies acopper or brazenKettle, in which dying fluff is boyled for the colouring of cloth. It fignifies allo a pond, and fo a great veffel like a pond ; as that ha the Temple was called a Sea, for its greatncfs. Verf,
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