Chap. 41 Expofition upon the Boo, of J o D. Verf.3 3.. 77 3 domuch hurts make fuch a path Thine after them, asgives any an opportunity to efcape tbem,and keep out of danger,Thuswehave as it were, the 'pieture of Leviathan, drawnby the hand of God hintfelf : -And from all, it appears that he is a veryNoese fuck, or that his fellovris not to be found, he bath no equal in the vifible world, fuch another is no where tobe had. 'Thus the Lord concludes. Verf. 3 3, 34. Opon the earth is not his like, who is made without fear: be beholdeth all high things:he as a King over all the children of pride. Thefe twoverfes contain the clofe of all; they are, as it were, the Epilogue,, the Epiphonema, or clofing words, with which the Lord (huts uphis whole difccurfe about this creature. M if he had Paid, why fhould Iwade further in a defcription of himby par- ticulars ? I will fay all, Iwill wind up all an a word; he is Poch a one, as in the earth there is not his like. Or, as if the Lord had laid tolob, I told thee before of Behemoth, that he is the chief of my ways ; yet he comes far port of Leviathan, for upon earth there is not his like. Leviathan is not only the chief inhis own domi- nion,among the Tithes of the fa, but all() among the beafis of the earth, the liróngefi"and flouteff of which are not to be compared with him. Before I proceed with the opening of there two verfes, rac- cording to our tranflation, which generally holds out Leviathan to be the Whale ; and before I touch forme other tranflations, which bear the fame interpretation, I (hall propofe the tranfla- Lion and interpretation given by the learned Bochartus, which accommodates theft two concluding verfes fully to the Croco- afile. His tranilation runs thus, and fodothhis interpretation, as followeth, There is not his ltke upon thedaft fo made, that he Am:1:4),i Nonoft ei,ff bebruifed (or broken) He tranflates the Hebtew( L )'not mile fiìporput. as we,upon the earth, but, upon the drift, thereby implying that a áuvrem,tra js- creepingthangishereintended by Leviathan: For (faithhe) the n,urnowara .tur feet of the Crocodile are fo fort, that he rather creepeth than ter goeth'.; and therefore be may well bp'reckoned among creeping things : And hence Serpen's (being creeping things) are call- edSerpents "of the daft petit, 3 ti. 74,) Nov though theCro.. codile
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