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Every kind; some of every kind.
Of beasts; wild beasts, such as are most fierce and untractable.
And of birds; though so movable and wandering, the very vagabonds of nature.
And of serpents; which are such enemies to mankind.
And of things in the sea; the inhabitants, as it were, of another world, really of another element.
Is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind; either made gentle, or at least, brought into subjection to man by one means or other. He useth both tenses, the present and the past perfect, to note that such things not only have been, but still are; and that not as the effects of some miraculous providence, as in the case of Daniel, Dan_6:1-28, and Paul, Act_28:1-31, but as that which is usually experienced, and in man’s power still to do.