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the Detruction of the kind: Whereas there were Plants innumerable, and great variety of Fruit for their Sutenance. And therefore here being no grant made to them of Animals for their Food, though no prohibition neither, it is very probable they abtained from eating Fleh, till after the Flood, (when God exprely gave them every living thing for Meat, as much as the Herbs, IX. 2.) unles it were upon ome pecial occaions: As, perhaps, when they acrificed living Creatures; which they did in proces of time, (IV. 4) though not at the firt.

Ver. 30. And to every Beat, &c.] Here he gives to the Beats, and Fowl, and Creeping things, all Herbs for their Food, but aith nothing of Fruit; from which we cannot well think the Birds would abtain: And therefore they are included in the Phrae, of every green Herb.

Ver. 31. Very Good.] From thee words Epiphanius confutes the Manichees, Hre. LXVI, n. 18. where there is an explanation of this Phrae (God aw that it was good) throughough this whole Chapter. Where it being aid at the end of every Day's Work, God aw it was good; and particularly here on the Sixth Day, before he had quite ended the Work of it, he aith o of the formation of the Beats, ver. 25. Abarbinel will have this to relate particularly to the Creation of Man and Woman. But the beginning of the Vere plainly hows that he peaks of every thing that he had made: And therefore their Doctors in Bericheth Rabba (whom he mentions) ay a great deal better, That Man is meant in the firt and principal place, when Moes ays, God aw every thing that he had made; and behold, it was very good. CHAP.