BOAR, Aper, or singularis ferus. This Beast was unclean, as well as the Hog. The Prophet complains in the Psalms, that the wild Boar of the Forest hath rooted up the Lord’s Vine. Singularis ferus depastus est eam. Which is understood either of Sennacherib, or Nebuchadnezzar, or Antiochus Epiphanes, who ravaged Judea. The Hebrew word Sis, is taken in general for all wild beasts. See Psalm xlix. 11. The Syriac understands it in the place cited of the wild Ass, and the Chaldee of the wild Cock.
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