SCORPIONS.
"And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails"—Revelation 9: 10
An Arab writer in the Escurial collection, about the year 1249, thus speaks of the scorpions used by the Saracens of Mauritania: "The scorpions, surrounded and ignited by nitrated powder, glide along like serpents and hum, and when exploded they blaze brightly and burn. Now to behold the matter expelled was as a cloud extended through the air, which gave forth a dreadful crash like thunder, vomiting forth on every side, and breaking down, burning and reducing all things to ashes."
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"The wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just."
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