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

  24 For all ^aold things shall ^bpass 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 ^abeasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and that which cometh of the earth, is ^bordained for the use of man for food and for ^craiment, 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 ^afigurative expressions, used by the Revelator, John, in describing ^bheaven, the ^cparadise of God, the ^dhappiness 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 ^espirit of man in the likeness of his person, as also the spirit of the ^fbeast, and every other creature which God has created.