moving creature] Heb. creeping thing. The fishes are called creeping things, (for so the Originall word Shrets importeth) because as creeping things on the earth move with their bellies close to the element they live on, so doe fishes in the water. The difference betwixt creeping and going creatures is properly in the feet, though if they be such short feet as bring their breasts or bellies neere the ground, they are said to creepe, (as a Lizard, or Neu; and so we say of some other creatures, whose legs doe lift them up but a little way above the ground they goe on;) now because commonly such things as creepe doe move but slowly, and fishes move very swiftly in the water, we commonly call their motion not creeping, but swimming, rather according to what we perceive by sense then what the Originall word doth signifie. There are some swimming creatures called amphibia, that have their abode partly on the land, partly on the water, as the Crocodile, and the fish called the Sea-horse, but though they have feet, and use them on the land, yet in the water they move with their bellies on the water, and use their feet but as oares to swimme withall, as doe Swans and such like. There be many other kindes of creeping things, of which see Annot. on vers. 24.