Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces.”
(Ps. lxxiv. 12-14.)
Of him also the Spirit causes Isaiah to say, “In that day, shall this song be sung in the land of Judah”;—
“In that day the Lord, with his sore, and great, and strong sword,
Shall punish leviathan the piercing (r.v. swift) serpent,
Even leviathan that crooked serpent;
And he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.”
(Isa. xxvi. 1; xxvii. 1.)
This is exactly what is foreshadowed by this constellation of Draco. Its name is from the Greek, and means trodden on, as in the Septuagint of Ps. xci. 13: “The dragon shalt thou trample under feet,” from the Hebrew דָּרַךְ, Dahrach, to tread.
