13.  Who among men knows even the names of all wild beasts?  Or who can accurately discern the physiology of each?  But if of the wild beasts we know not even the mere names, how shall we comprehend the Maker of them?  God’s command was but one, which said, Let the earth bring forth wild beasts, and cattle, and creeping things, after their kinds Gen. i. 24. and from one earth Instead of φωνῆς (Milles), or πηγῆς (Bened. Roe, Casaub.) the recent Editors have restored τῆς γῆς with the Jerusalem and Munich mss., and Basil., by one command, have sprung diverse natures, the gentle sheep and the carnivorous lion, and various instincts Gr. κινήσεις “movements,” “impulses.”  Aristotle (Historia Animalium. IX. vii. 1) remarks that many imitations of man’s mode of life may be observed in the habits of other animals. of irrational animals, bearing resemblance to the various characters of men; the fox to manifest the craft that is in men, and the snake the venomous treachery of friends, and the neighing horse the wantonness of young men Jer. v. 8., and the laborious ant, to arouse the sluggish and the dull:  for when a man passes his youth in idleness, then he is instructed by the irrational animals, being reproved by the divine Scripture saying, Go to the ant, thou sluggard, see and emulate her ways, and become wiser than she Prov. vi. 6.  Instead of the epithet “laborious” (γεωργότατος ) some mss. have “agile” or “restless” (γοργότατος)..  For when thou seest her treasuring up her food in good season, imitate her, and treasure up for thyself fruits of good works for the world to come.  And again, Go to the bee, and learn how industrious she is After the description of the ant, Prov. vi. 6–8, there follows in the Septuagint a similar reference to the bee:  “Or go to the bee, and learn how industrious she is, and how comely she makes her work, and the produce of her labours kings and commons adopt for health, and she is desired and esteemed by all, and though feeble in strength has been exalted by her regard for wisdom.”  The interpolation is supposed to be of Greek origin, as containing “idiomatic Greek expressions which would not occur to a translator from the Hebrew” (Delitzsch).:  how, hovering round all kinds of flowers, she collects her honey for thy benefit:  that thou also, by ranging over the Holy Scriptures, mayest lay hold of salvation for thyself, and being filled with them mayest say, How sweet are thy words unto my throat, yea sweeter than honey and the honeycomb unto my mouth Ps. cxix. 103..