John Trapp on Job 41:29
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Job41:29
Verſe 29. Darts are counted as ſtubble] When any thing in the Decrees or Decretals likes not the Pope, he ſets Palea, that is, ſtubble upon it; or Hoe non credo: ſo doth this Leviathan upon all kind of weapons; he ſlightes them. The word here rendred darts, is as ſtrange, as the weapon it ſignifieth is to us unknown, lapides balliſtae, an engin, whereby great ſtones were thrown againſt Walles or Towers (as now Cannon-bullets) to make a breath in them. Catapulta, aries vel ſimile aliquod tormentum, Be they what they will, the Whale fears them not, no though they were as terrible to others, as thoſe two great pieces of Ordnance caſt by Alphonſus Duke of Ferrara; the one whereof he called the Earthquake, the other Grandiabolo, the great Devil
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