7. unicorns--Hebrew, reem: conveying the idea of loftiness,
power, and pre-eminence (see on
Job 39:9),
in the Bible. At one time the image in the term answers to a reality in
nature; at another it symbolizes an abstraction. The rhinoceros was the
original type. The Arab rim is two-horned: it was the oryx (the
leucoryx, antelope, bold and pugnacious); but when accident or
artifice deprived it of one horn, the notion of the unicorn arose. Here
is meant the portion of the Edomites which was strong and warlike.
come down--rather, "fall down," slain [LOWTH].
with them--with the "lambs and goats," the less powerful Edomites
(Isa 34:6).
bullocks . . . bulls--the young and old Edomites: all classes.
dust--ground.
JFB.
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