John Trapp on Job 41:16

Verſe 16. One is ſo near to another, that no air, &c.] One ſcale or flake is. This is more proper, ſay ſome, to the Crocodile, than to the Whale: but who can tell the ſeveral kinds of Whales,Vide Cocceium. in locum. ſome whereof are ſaid to have great and thick ſcales cloſely compacted as here? Quòd ſi ſquammae Leviathan ita cohareant, ut earum opere textili denſato, &c. Let the Saints ſtrengthen themſelves by cloſe-ſticking the one to the other, as the primitive Chriſtians did; ſo that the very heathens acknowledged, that no people under Heaven did ſo hold together and love one another; as they; being like that Sacra cohors, holy band of Souldiers in the Theban Army, which conſiſted [non-Latin text not transcribed],Athenaeus. lib. 3. of ſuch only who were joyned together in the bonds of love: and theſe they eſteemed the prime of all their ſtrength in battel.