Cross-link to /featured/bronze-serpent for the substitution typology from a different angle. Bullinger + Seiss (PD). Critical echo: ram-as-substitute is a real biblical theme (Gen 22:13), but reading it onto the constellation name is the interpretive move at issue.
Aries (Taleh) — the Substitute Lamb
Bullinger: the slain ram; substitutionary atonement imagery.
Primary passage:Job 38:32 →
Commentary
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Matthew Henry
Complete Commentary
J O B CHAP. XXXVIII. In most disputes the strife is who shall have the last word. Job's friends had, in this controversy, tamely yielded it to Job, and then he to Elihu. But, after all the wranglings of the counsel at bar, the judge upon the bench must have…
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