passage the marginal reading ‘an unicorn’ (not ‘unicorns’) is the correct one, and the context agrees with it in demonstrating that a two-horned animal is referred to. The reem is spoken of as a fierce and terrible beast in Psalm 22:21, ‘Save me from the lion’s mouth: for Thou hast heard me from the horns of the unicorns.’ So also in Isa. 34:7, ‘The unicorns shall come down with them, and the bullocks with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood.’ In Job is given a poetic account of