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Ant
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or A small insect, famous for its industry and economy, for its social habits and skill in building. Some species build habitations truly immense compared with themselves, and able to contain a dozen men. Their roofs are impervious to rain, and they contain numerous stories, galleries, etc., the result of skilful and incessant labor. Ants lavish the utmost care and pains upon their young, both in the egg and the chrysalis state. The termites or white ants are large and very destructive. Most varieties of ants are known to choose animal or saccharine food; and no species has yet been found laying up stores of grain for winter use, for while the frost continues they all lie torpid. The language of Solomon, Proverbs 6:6 , commends them for toiling as soon and as long as the season permits and rewards their labor, and bids us make the same diligent use of life and opportunities, Proverbs 30:24,25 . The inferior animals are in many respects wiser than sinful man, Job 12:7,8 .
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Ant'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/a/ant.html. 1859.
