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John Trapp on Job 39:3

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Job39:3

Verſe 3. They bow themſelves] ſc. By an inſtinct of nature, whether it be the pain they ſuffer which compelleth them to it, or the fear of hurting their calves, which obligeth them to it.

They bring forth their young] Diffindunt: fiſſa ſc: et aperta tandem matrice; they bring forth with a great deal of difficulty, to the cruſhing of their young, which yet eſcape and grow up. Let good women learn, ſperare à Deo faciles & ſalices partus, to truſt in God for a happy delivery, though it go hard with them, ſometimes to the making of ſome Medae[illegible: 1 letter] ſay,Eurip. Millies in acie mori mallem quam ſemel parere. I had rather, a thouſand times, die in battel, than bring forth one childe.

They caſt out their ſorrows] Tormina, their throws, and therewith their young, by the benefit of the herbs Arus and Seſelis, Ariſt. hiſt. anim. lib. 9 cap. 5. Plin. lib. 8. c. 31. which they feed upon, for the better bringing away of their gleanings as they call the involucrum, that wrappeth the young in the matrix. The vulgar hath it, They utter roarings; they caſt forth cryes which are as terrible as the roarings of Lioneſſes. Stato partus tempore valve deh[illegible: 1 letter] ſount que à partu mox occluduntur: id quòd fieri vidensus, inquit Galenus, fed quomodo fiat, admirari tantum poſſumus. Avicenna vocat opus ſupra mirabilia omnia, mirabile. Sed miracula aſſiduitate vileſcunt. If a man ſhould be born but once in an hundred years, all the world would ſtand amazed at ſuch a Miracle.

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