19
For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails. For their tails are like serpents, and have heads; and with them they harm.
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Verse 19. For the power of the horses. The power of the imagined horses or real cannon, lying in their mouths and in their tails, signifies that the mischievous power of the cannon is directed to the object by their mouths, but takes its birth in the tail or breech of the cannon, where the charge is lodged: whence the cannon’s breech is here compared to the serpent’s head, which contains its venom. Past. hic.
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