Verses 9-12. See Barnes |Mt 7:7, See Barnes |Mt 7:8, See Barnes |Mt 7:9, See Barnes |Mt 7:10, See Barnes |Mt 7:11|
Verse 12. A scorpion. See Barnes |Lu 10:19|.
Dr. Thomson (The Land and the Book, vol. i. p.379) says:
|There is no imaginable likeness between an egg and
the ordinary black scorpion of this country, neither
in colour nor size, nor, when the tail is extended,
in shape; but old writers speak of a white scorpion,
and such a one, with the tail folded up, as in
specimens of fossil trilobites, would not look unlike
a small egg. Perhaps the contrast, however, refers
only to the different properties of the egg and the
scorpion, which is sufficiently emphatic.|
Pliny (N. H., xi.25) says that in Judea the scorpions are about the size of an egg, and not unlike one in shape.
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