"16. When he shall raise him up, the angels shall fear, and being affrighted shall purify themselves."
Could such language properly be applied, even by the wildest stretch of poetic fancy, to a whale or a crocodile, or any other monster of the deep? What earthly creature could terrify the angels in heaven? What earthly creature has ever breathed fire?
"17. When a sword shall lay at him, it shall not be able to hold, nor a spear, nor a breast-plate.
"18. For he shall esteem iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
"19. The archer shall not put him to flight, the stones of the sling are to him like stubble.
"20. As stubble will he esteem the hammer, and he will laugh him to scorn who shaketh the spear."
We are reminded of the great gods of Asgard, who stood forth and fought the monster with sword and spear and hammer, and who fell dead before him; and of the American legends, where the demi-gods in vain hurled their darts and arrows at him, and fell pierced by the rebounding weapons.
"21. The beams of the sun shall be under him," (in the King James version it is, "SHARP STONES are under him"--the gravel, the falling débris,) "and he shall strew gold under him like mire." (The King James version says, "he spreadeth sharp-pointed things upon the mire.")
To what whale or crocodile can these words be applied? When did they ever shed gold or stones? And
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