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Job 39:3

They bow themselves, they bring forth their young ones, they cast out their offspring.
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George Leo Haydock

AD 1849
Roarings. They pretend that these animals bring forth with great difficulty, Psalm xxviii. 9. (Vatable) Aristotle (v. 2., and vi. 29.) asserts, that they receive the male bending down, as Hebrew may be here explained. "They bend, they divide their young "as they have often two; "and they leave their strings "at the navel (Calmet)

Gregory The Dialogist

AD 604
47. For they roar in truth, whilst by bending themselves down, they bring forth the souls of their hearers in the conversation of light; because they cannot release us from eternal punishments, except by tears and pain. For holy preachers sow in tears now, that they may afterwards reap a crop of joys. They are now like hinds in the pangs of bringing forth, that they may afterwards be fruitful in spiritual offspring. For, to speak of one out of many, I see Paul, like a hind, uttering roarings of great pain in his pangs of birth. For he says, My little children, of whom I travail in birth again, till Christ be formed in you, I desire to be with you now, and to change my voice, since I am perplexed for you. [Gal. 4, 19. 20.] Lo, he wishes to change his voice in his child-birth, that the voice of preaching may he turned into the roaring of pain. He wishes to change his voice, because those whom he had already brought forth by preaching, he was again bringing forth with groans in forming th...

Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation - 2 Peter 1:20

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