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John Gill's Exposition on Job 39:3
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John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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They bow themselves, etc.] That they may bring forth their young with greater ease and more safety: for it seems the hinds bring forth their young with great difficulty; and there are provisions in nature made to lessen it; as thunder, before observed, which causes them to bring forth the sooner; and there is an herb called “seselis”, which it is said f1350 they feed upon before birth, to make it the easier; as well as they use that, and another called “aros”, after the birth, to ease them of their later pains; they bring forth their young ones; renting and cleaving asunder the membrane, as the word signifies, in which their young is wrapped; they cast out their sorrows; either their young, which they bring forth in pains and which then cease; or the secundines, or afterbirth, in which the young is wrapped, and which the philosopher says f1351 they eat, and is supposed to be medical to them. None but a woman seems to bring forth with more pain than this creature; and a wife is compared to it, (<200519>Proverbs 5:19).
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