FROGS, a very common creature. When Moses brought upon Egypt the Plague of Frogs, there was so great a quantity of them, that they covered the whole land, entred the houses, got into the very ovens, and places where they laid up their provisions; and when they died, they were thrown together in great heaps, which corrupting, produced an insupportable infection in Egypt.
Frogs were reckoned unclean by the Hebrews. Moses does not name them among the animals whereof it was not lawful to eat, but he distinguishes them sufficiently by saying, ye shall not eat of any thing that moves in the sea, in rivers, or lakes, unless it has fins and scales. And St. John in the Revelations says, that he saw three unclean Spirits issuing out of the false Prophet’s mouth in the shape of Frogs.