Psalm 22:21

Verse 21. Save me... from the horns of the unicorns. Those who are in great trouble from the power or cruelty of others, often cry out to their gods, "Ah! save me from the tusk of the elephant! from the mouth of the tiger and the tusks of the boar, deliver me, deliver me!" Who will save me from the horn of the "Kandam?" This animal is now extinct in these regions, and it is not easy to determine what it was; the word in the Sathur -- Agarathe -- is rendered "jungle cow." Joseph Roberts.

Verse 21. The horns of the unicorns. On turning to the Jewish Bible we find that the word (~ar) is translated as buffalo, and there is no doubt that this rendering is nearly the correct one, and at the present day naturalists are nearly agreed that the reem of the Old Testament must have been now the extinct urus...The presence of these horns affords a remarkable confirmation to a well known passage in Julias Caesar's familiar "Commentaries." The uri are little inferior to elephants in size (magnitudine paulo infra elephantos;) but are bulls in their nature, colour, and figure. Great is their strength, and great their swiftness; nor do they spare man or beast when they have caught sight of them. J. G. Wood, M.A., F.L.S., in "Bible Animals." 1869.

HINTS FOR PASTORS AND LAYPERSONS

Verse 21. (first clause). Lion's mouth. Men of cruelty. The devil. Sin. Death. Hell.