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Who can strip off his outer garment? Who will come within his jaws?
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Verse 13. Neck. Some deny that the crocodile has any, being formed like a lizard. But it is a dispute about words. The animal turns with difficulty, so that Thomas Gage assures us he escaped one by going in different directions.—Want. It ravages a whole country. Hebrew “fear.” Calmet.—Prot. “sorrow is turned into joy before him;” which seems strange. Septuagint “destruction runs before him.” Bible.—The poets place fear, carnage, and so forth in the train of Mars. Calmet.
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