QUESTIONS ON ANIMALS. Q. Into how many kinds were animals divided under the Jewish law? A. Two. The clean and unclean. Q. Were animals fierce in the garden of Eden? A. No. But when sin entered, their natures as well as those of men, were changed. Q. Who gave the beasts their names? A. Q. A. Q. Who first brought an offering of his flock? Of what were sacrifices a type? A. Of Jesus Christ's offering up Himself. Q. What animals were used in sacrifice? A. Bullocks, sheep, and goats. Q. What tribes of Israel had the greatest number of flocks and herds? A. Reuben and Gad. Q. What prophet was a herdsman? A. Amos. Q. What king and prophet was a shepherd? A. David. Q. What man, afterwards a king, was met by Samuel looking for his father's asses? A. Saul, the son of Kish. Q. What is an ox-goad? A. A long pointed pole, used for urging on oxen. Q. Who slew 600 men with an ox-goad? Q. Who was ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, when called to be a prophet? Q. Who says, "The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib"? Q. What nation worshipped bulls? A. The Egyptians. Q. What nation made a golden calf in Horeb? A. The Israelites. Q. Who made a molten sea, which stood upon twelve oxen? A. Solomon. Q. Who made golden calves in Dan and Beersheba, and taught the Israelites to worship them? A. King Jeroboam. Q. Who is called "the Lamb of God"? Q. What sort of tails have the sheep of Palestine? A. Long, heavy tails; the fat of which is much esteemed. Q. Who is called the Good Shepherd ? Q. Is the Eastern shepherd's life a dangerous one ? A. Yes. his sheep. Sometimes he loses his life to save Q. Do the sheep go before, or follow after the shepherd, in the East? A. They follow after. Q. What beautiful verses in the Bible does this explain? A. John x. 4, 5. Q. What animals are great enemies to the sheep? A. Wolves, bears, lions, leopards, hyenas, etc. Q. What great lawgiver kept for forty years his father-in-law's sheep in the wilderness? A. Moses. Q. Who were keeping their flocks by night when the birth of Jesus was told them? A. The shepherds of Bethlehem. Q. How many sheep did Solomon sacrifice at the dedication of the temple ? A. One hundred and twenty thousand. A. Twenty-two thousand. Q. Who are compared to sheep and goats? A. The righteous and the wicked. Q. For what is it celebrated? A. Yes. Q. What are the young of goats called? Q. A. Who made savoury meat from kid's flesh? Q. Of what kingdom was the goat an emblem ? A. The Macedonian Empire. Q. What sacrifice of goats was the most typical under the Jewish law? A. That on the day of Atonement, when two goats were taken, and one killed. The other, called the scape-goat, was sent far off into the wilderness, after having had the sins of the people confessed over it. Q. Of what was the scape-goat a type? A. Of Him who bore our sins and carried our sorrows on Himself, by shedding His blood for all who believe on Him. Q. What are harts and hinds? A. Deer; so called at the age of six years. Q. Are there many in Palestine ? A. Yes. Where they may often be seen feeding among the lilies, and skipping on the hills. Q. To whom are they thus compared ? A. Jesus Christ. Q. Who was compared to a hind let loose? A. Napthali. Q. Who was said to be light of foot, as a young roe? A. David's nephew, Asahel. Q. Is the hind very tender to its young A. Yes; it will never forsake them except when famishing with hunger. Q. Who describes himself as panting for his God, like a hart after the waterbrooks? Q. In what does the roebuck differ in habit from the hart? A. Not going in herds, but in single families. Q. What is the Pygarg? A. A kind of antelope, with splendid horns. Q. What is the wild ox of the Bible? A. A kind of stag,-properly called the oryx. Q. What do some people suppose the chamois of the Bible to mean? A. The giraffe. Q. What is the chamois ? A. A small, wild, graceful antelope. Q. Where is the fallow-deer often seen? A. In English parks. |