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 then he reckons up the inhabitants of thee three kingdoms, but in the terretrial leaves out the econd rank חיה or wild beats: but here, ver. 28. where he actually exercies this deign, and gives him this dominion, the text mentions the fihes of the ea, and fowls of the air, and the terretrial creatures in the words that ignify the wild beats and reptils, though tranlated living thing that moveth, leaving out cattle. In both which places, though the word that ignifies wild beats be omitted in one, and that which ignifies cattle in the other, yet, ince God certainly executed in one place, what he declares he deigned in the other, we cannot but undertand the ame in both places, and have here only an account, how the terretrial irrational animals, which were already created and reckoned up at their creation, in three ditinct ranks of cattle, wild beats, and reptils, were here, ver. 28. actually put under the dominion of man, as they were deigned, ver. 26. nor do thee words contain in them the leat appearance of any thing that can be wreted to ignify God's giving to one man dominion over another, to Adam over his poterity.

§. 27. And this further appears from Gen. ix. 2. where God renewing this charter to Noah and his ons, he gives them dominion over the fowls of the air, and the fihes of the ea, and the terretrial creatures, expreed by ה׳ה