Bullinger + Seiss readings (PD). Critical echo: the "triumphant" gloss imports NT imagery into ancient constellation naming with no clear pre-Christian Hebrew warrant.
Sagittarius — the Triumphant
Bullinger: the archer with drawn bow; the conquering king imagery.
Primary passage:Job 38:32 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
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J O B CHAP. XXXVIII. In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have…
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