10  A righteous man regardeth the life of his ^abeast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

  24  For all old things shall pass away, and all things shall become new, even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and ^cbeasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea;

  19  For, behold, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is ordained for the use of man for food and for raiment, and that he might have in abundance.

  2  Q. What are we to understand by the four beasts, spoken of in the same verse?

A. They are figurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in describing heaven, the paradise of God, the happiness of man, and of beasts, and of creeping things, and of the fowls of the air; that which is spiritual being in the likeness of that which is temporal; and that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual; the spirit of man in the likeness of his person, as also the spirit of the ^fbeast, and every other creature which God has created.

  19  And out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto ^aAdam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.