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292 SHEEP BREEDING AND<br />

expressions in scripture respecting the destructiveness <strong>of</strong> the<br />

moth, y'<br />

" Your garments are moth-eaten." James v. 2. '• He, as a<br />

rotten tiling, consumetii, as a garment tliat is moth-eaten."<br />

Job xiii. 28. " <strong>The</strong>y all shall wax old as a garment, the moth<br />

shall eat them up."—Is. 1. 9. " <strong>The</strong> moth shall eat them up<br />

like a garment, <strong>and</strong> the worms shall cat them hke <strong>wool</strong>." Is.<br />

h. 8. " From garments <strong>com</strong>eth a moth." Eccles. xlii. 13.<br />

" Treasures, where moth <strong>and</strong> rust corrupt." Matt. vi. 19.<br />

But it is to be observed, that the sacred writers mention not<br />

the moth, but the minute worm, which changes into a moth,<br />

<strong>and</strong> which alone gnaws the garments. In the passages which<br />

have been quoted, the word " moth" must be understood to sig-<br />

nify the larva* <strong>of</strong> the clothes-moth [PhalcBna Vestianella,<br />

Linn.), or <strong>of</strong> some insect <strong>of</strong> the same kind.<br />

* When an insect first issues from the egg, it is called by naturalists larva.<br />

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