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Job_39:11 Wilt thou trust him, because his strength [is] great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to him?
Ver. 11. Wilt thou trust him, because his strength is great?] Of the unicorn’s strength Balaam speaketh, Num_23:22. The Hebrew word signifieth such lustiness, courage, and prowess, as whereby one endureth labour without weariness or fainting. Such strength is required in ploughmen, whose work is never at an end; and hard fallow must have a strong team. But the unicorn will never fadge nor frame to such an employment. Free God hath made him; and rather than part with his freedom he will part with his life. Let men learn to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made them free, Gal_5:1, and not be again entangled (as oxen tied to the yoke) with the yoke of spiritual bondage, worse than the Egyptian servitude.