Show Jackals Described as Foxes in Scripture The ancient Roman noman writer Ovid let us know that it was was not an nn uncommon uncommon uncommon un un- un- un common thing to fasten firebrands to foxes' foxes tails to do damage to an enemy's country and that at one of the state festivals It t was a custom to tie a n number of at foxes together by the tails taUs affix firebrands among them and let them run wild This was apparently a n well known trick In olden times Umes and Is referred I to in Judges 15 1 where we read that Samson was Incensed against the Philistines the most warlike and most greatly dreaded of ot the enemIes enemies enemies en en- of the Israelites In the early days of their settlement In the land landof landof of at Promise went Promise went and caught three hundred l foxes faxes and took tool firebrands firebrands firebrands fire fire- brands and turned tall to tall tail and put a n firebrand In the midst between between between be be- tween two tails and when he had set the brands on fire he be let them go Into the standing corn of ot the Philistines and burnt up troth Iloth ty th the shocks and also the standing corn with the vineyards and olives oll Now even en In those early days It would have haye been a n tremendous task fo for foi even een the clever Samson to catch three hundred specimens of the fox which has always been a solitary hunter But Jackals traveled then as now In large packs and by pits or cleverly constructed driveways s 's sInto Into enclosures It would not have bave been a n very ery tr trying task to take three hundred bundred of or them alive e And so In this passage we shall almost certainly be right In reading three hundred Jackals Instead 1 of at foxes taxes as us a n marginal reading rending of the authorized author version of the Bible suggests Montreal Herald |