and every winged fowle] According to our Translation and the Vulgar Latine, the fowles and fishes seeme to have had the same Originall, vers. 20. &22. and indeed it is probable they were rather made the fifth day with the fishes, then the sixth with the beasts, because the fowles and fishes are thrice mentioned in the fifth dayes worke together, and no mention of the making them on the sixth day among the beasts; and though they be brought in among the beasts, Chap. 2. 19. it is but occasionally, to wit, that they might bee named by Adam, as the fishes were not: But yet it may be they were made rather of the earth, then of the water, though they were made the fifth day, because it is said, Let fowle multiply in the earth, vers. 22. of this Chapter; and though some of them live much in the water, and of what they get out of the water, the most of them flying in the aire, have their consistence upon the earth, or some solid body resting upon the earth. And yet there may be a third opinion as probable as either of the former, which is, that the fowles as they live, so they were formed in the aire, and of it, other elements necessary to constitute mixt bodies (by Divine power) being tempered with it. Of which three Opinions there is none either demonstratively true, or dangerously false, if untrue. created] To create in property of speech (as is noted before in the Annot. on vers. 1.) is to make a thing out of meere nothing, as the word Bara is used, vers. 1. The same word is used of the making of Whales though they had their being from precedent matter, because that matter was originally nothing; and such as it was, so unapt for such a worke, that without an infinite creating power it could never have beene formed into a Whale. great whales] The Hebrew word Tanninim, rendred Whales, is taken in generall for all great creatures, whether of the earth, or of the water, Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. 32. cap. 11. writes there are one hundred seventy sixe kinds that live in the watery region, and he setteth them downe in an Alphebeticall order, among which the Whales are the greatest, being like moving mountaines in the Seas; for some of them (as he giveth in the measure in the same Chapter) are sixe hundred foot long, and three hundred sixty foot broad; they may then well be called great whales, as the Sunne and Moone, great lights, 5: 16. yet as great as they were, they could not make themselves, no more then the little Gnat, or Pismire could give a being to it self. Of this creature much is said in the Book of Job under the name of Leviathan, so is he called, Chap. 41. which name in the Originall is a compound of two words, Lavah which is to couple, and Thannin a Serpent, or Dragon; because by his bignesse he seemes not one single creature, but a coupling of divers together; or because his scales are closed, or straitly compacted together. fowle] See the first Annot. on vers. 20.