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John Trapp on Job 41:18

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Job41:18

Verſe 18.In ſublime nimbos efflat. Plin. lib. 9. c. 6. By his neeſings, a light doth ſhine] When this dreadful Monſter ſneezeth, or ſnorteth, fire breaketh out at his eyes and noſe. By this neezing of the Whale is meant the abundance of white frothy water which he caſteth forth at his noſtrils.

And his eyes are like the eye-lids of the morning] Bright and beamy. Olaus writeth of the Norway Whales, that their eyes ſhine in a dark night like a fire: ſo that Marriners have oft thought, when they have ſeen them, that they ſaw a great fire.

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