Admire also the great thickness of the knots which run round the reed, as the Artificer hath made them.  From one and the same earth come forth creeping things, and wild beasts, and cattle, and trees, and food; and gold, and silver, and brass, and iron, and stone.  The nature of the waters is but one, yet from it comes the substance of fishes and of birds; whereby For the construction of ἵνα with the Indicative ἵπτανται, see Bernhardy, Syntax, p. 401.  Winer (Gram. N. T. III. sect. xli. c). as the former swim in the waters, so the birds fly in the air.