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  2. Animals in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The first class, the beasts, in the Biblical parlance, includes all large, walking animals, with the exception of the amphibia, such small animals as moles, mice and the like, [4] and humans as they were not classified as animals. Beasts are divided into cattle, or domesticated (behemoth in the strict sense), and beasts of the field, i.e. wild ...

  3. Twenty-Four Elders - Wikipedia

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    Briefly, the beasts represent the different kinds of souls that are embodied in the four elements (of matter), namely, the earth-bodied (represented by the lion, since he walks on earth), the air-bodied (represented by the eagle who flies in the air), the water-bodied (represented by the calf, which here is the young of the sea-mammals), and ...

  4. Portal:Saints/Quotes/May 2007 - Wikipedia

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  5. Great chain of being - Wikipedia

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    The term "missing link" later came to signify transitional fossils, particularly those bridging the gulf between man and beasts. [ 22 ] The idea of the great chain, as well as the derived "missing link", was abandoned in early 20th-century science, [ 23 ] as the notion of modern animals representing ancestors of other modern animals was ...

  6. Serpents in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    While on earth, he pursues the Woman of the Apocalypse and gives power and authority to the Beast. Unable to obtain her, he wages war with the rest of her seed (Revelation 12:1–18). Unable to obtain her, he wages war with the rest of her seed (Revelation 12:1–18).

  7. Revelation 13 - Wikipedia

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    Revelation 13 is the thirteenth chapter of the Book of Revelation or the Apocalypse of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.The book is traditionally attributed to John the Apostle, [1] [2] but the precise identity of the author remains a point of academic debate. [3]

  8. The Four and Twenty Elders Casting their Crowns before the ...

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    before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal... round about... were four beasts full of eyes... The four and twenty elders fall down before him... and worship him that liveth for ever and ever. [3] Blake's depiction was created as part of a commission of biblical watercolours for his friend and patron [4] Thomas Butts. The ...

  9. Behemoth - Wikipedia

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    Clockwise from left: Behemoth (on earth), Ziz (in sky), and Leviathan (under sea). From an illuminated manuscript, 13th century AD. Behemoth (/ b ɪ ˈ h iː m ə θ, ˈ b iː ə-/; Hebrew: בְּהֵמוֹת, bəhēmōṯ) is a beast from the biblical Book of Job, and is a form of the primeval chaos-monster created by God at the beginning of creation; he is paired with the other chaos-monster ...