 Reference Base  Apparatus Biblicus; or, an introduction to the Holy Scrip... |
|
Lamy, B., 1723. Apparatus Biblicus; or, an introduction to the Holy Scriptures Done into English from the French, with notes and additions [by R Bundy]. London, S. Palmer, pp. i-xxviii, 1-540
|
|
|
|
| |
| Location: |
World |
| Subject: |
Text as original |
| Species: |
All Rhino Species |
 |
|
[1723: 403]
Reem, or Rem, is according to the common opinion, the Rhinoceros or Unicorn. And here O observe, that it was formerly believed, that there were in the Indies, horses, asses and goats, which had but one horn. If so, the species must now be lost: for travellers find none such in that country at present. And some have thought that the Unicorn was a chemerical animal; but if it had, the Scripture would not have spoken of it. Besides, it is not certain, that Reem was an animal that had but one horn. When David says, God will lift up his horn [Psal. xcii. 10. Heb.] this may as well be understood to signify of the horns, as of the horn of Reem. Nor can this be applied to wild oxen, they were not known in India. I am rather inclined to be of opinion, that it is a sort of goat which is called Orix. Bochart says, the word comes very near to the Arabic word, which signifies the goats, which had hard and high horns, which Strabo says the Ethiopians made use of for weapons. The Scripture also calls them, Theo or Tho.
|
|
|
File available
details
Original text on this topic: