Verses 9-10
9, 10. If the classifications in these verses are not scientific, modernly considered, they are comprehensive, and not without reason.
Mountains As awakening thoughts of God through the emotions of sublimity, grandeur, and awe.
Hills For their beauty and utility covered with flocks and fertile fields.
Fruitful trees, and all cedars The division of all trees into fruitbearing and non-fruitbearing is very natural in a country where fruit is a staple reliance for support. As natural is it to place the princely cedar as the representative of the latter class.
Beasts… all cattle “Beasts,” here, stand for wild animals, and “cattle” for tame or domestic ones.
Creeping things, and flying fowl Classified according to a principle of contrariety as to spheres of life and modes of motion, but all showing the varied wisdom of God.
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