form (_tanoth_).
(Septuagint, [Greek: "drakon"] and
[Greek: "strouthos."])

Lam. iv., 3.--Even the In the Hebrew text the word is
_sea-monsters_ draw out the _tannin_, evidently an error for
breast, they give suck to their _tanim_. The suckling of young, and
young ones. The daughter of my association of ostriches, agree with
people is become cruel, like this. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].")
the ostriches in the wilderness.

Micah i., 8.--I will make a The wailing cry accords with the
wailing like the _dragons_, and view of Gesenius that the jackal is
mourning like the owls meant.
[ostriches]. (Septuagint, "[Greek: drakon].")

We learn from the above comparative view that the _tannin_ is an
aquatic animal of large size, and predaceous, clothed with scales, and
a fit emblem of the monarchies of Egypt and Assyria. In two places it
is possible that some species of serpent is denoted by it. We must
suppose, therefore, that in Genesis i. it denotes large crocodilian
and perhaps serpentiform reptiles. The _tan_ is evidently a small
mammal of the desert.

I omitted to notice in the text a criticism of my explanation of the
word _bhemah_ in "Archaia," made in Archdeacon Pratt's "Scripture and
Science not at Variance" (edition of 1872). He opposes to the meaning
of "herbivorous animals" which I have sought to establish, two
exceptional passages. In one of these, Deut. xxviii., 26, the word is
used in its most general sense for all beasts, which the context shows
can not be its meaning in Gen. i. In the other, Prov. xxx., 30, he
says it is applied to the lion. The actual expression used, however,
merely implies that the lion is "mighty among _bhemah_," the
comparison being probably between the strength of the lion and that of
oxen, antelopes, and other strong and active creatures. It does not
affirm that the lion is one of the _bhemah_. While I have every
respect for the erudition of Archdeacon Pratt, and highly value his
book, I must regard this objection as an example of a style of
biblical exposition much to be deprecated, though too often employed.

I.--ANCIENT MYTHOLOGIES.

The current views respecting the relations of ancient mythologies with
each other and with the Bible have been continually shifting and
oscillating between extrem