Scientific Illustrations and Symbols Hebrews 11:36 And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yes, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: Some creatures are unquestionably used as scourges; but perhaps the less we mortals say about such animated pests the better. They act up to their own organisation, but never beyond; whilst it is far otherwise with mankind. The serpent employs its poisoned fangs to procure food or avert peril, real or fancied; the jaguar uses its terrible incisors in the destruction of its prey; and the shark avails itself of its dental apparatus to assuage its appetite. But man, says Hugh Miller, must surely have become an immensely worse animal than his teeth show him to have been designed for; his teeth give no evidence regarding his real character. Of our racks and thumbscrews, our inquisitions and oubliettes, our noyades at Nantes and our mitraillades at Lyons and Toulons, there is no prophetic intimation in our dentology. (Scientific Illustrations and Symbols.) Parallel Verses KJV: And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:WEB: Others were tried by mocking and scourging, yes, moreover by bonds and imprisonment. |
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