קדא, 1 Samuel xxvi, 20; Jer. xvii, 11; ϖέρδιξ, Ecclus. xi,
30. In the first of these places David says, The king of Israel is come
out to hunt a partridge on the mountains;” and in the second, The
partridge sitteth,” on eggs, and produceth,” or hatcheth, not; so he
that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of
his days, and at his end shall be contemptible.” This passage does not
necessarily imply that the partridge hatches the eggs of a stranger, but
only that she often fails in her attempts to bring forth her young. To
such disappointments she is greatly exposed from the position of her
nest on the ground, where her eggs are often spoiled by the wet, or
crushed by the foot. So he that broods over his ill-gotten gains will
often find them unproductive; or, if he leaves them, as a bird
occasionally driven from her nest, may be despoiled of their possession.
As to the hunting of the partridge, which, Dr. Shaw observes, is the
greater, or red-legged kind, the traveller says: The Arabs have another,
though a more laborious, method of catching these birds; for, observing
that they become languid and fatigued after they have been hastily put
up twice or thrice, they immediately run in upon them, and knock them
down with their _zerwattys_, or bludgeons as we should call them.”
Precisely in this manner Saul hunted David, coming hastily upon him,
putting him up incessantly, in hopes that at length his strength and
resources would fail, and he would become an easy prey to his pursuer.
Forskal mentions a partridge whose name in Arabic is _kurr_; and Latham
says, that, in the province of Andalusia in Spain, the name of the
partridge is _churr_; both taken, no doubt, like the Hebrew, from its
note.
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30. In the first of these places David says, The king of Israel is come
out to hunt a partridge on the mountains;” and in the second, The
partridge sitteth,” on eggs, and produceth,” or hatcheth, not; so he
that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of
his days, and at his end shall be contemptible.” This passage does not
necessarily imply that the partridge hatches the eggs of a stranger, but
only that she often fails in her attempts to bring forth her young. To
such disappointments she is greatly exposed from the position of her
nest on the ground, where her eggs are often spoiled by the wet, or
crushed by the foot. So he that broods over his ill-gotten gains will
often find them unproductive; or, if he leaves them, as a bird
occasionally driven from her nest, may be despoiled of their possession.
As to the hunting of the partridge, which, Dr. Shaw observes, is the
greater, or red-legged kind, the traveller says: The Arabs have another,
though a more laborious, method of catching these birds; for, observing
that they become languid and fatigued after they have been hastily put
up twice or thrice, they immediately run in upon them, and knock them
down with their _zerwattys_, or bludgeons as we should call them.”
Precisely in this manner Saul hunted David, coming hastily upon him,
putting him up incessantly, in hopes that at length his strength and
resources would fail, and he would become an easy prey to his pursuer.
Forskal mentions a partridge whose name in Arabic is _kurr_; and Latham
says, that, in the province of Andalusia in Spain, the name of the
partridge is _churr_; both taken, no doubt, like the Hebrew, from its
note.
[Illustration:
Map of the
_COUNTRIES_
Travelled by the
APOSTLES
with the
ROUTES OF ST. PAUL
through
_Asia & Europe_
]