The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:
This most lively and excellent discourse is so entire, and the particulars of it are so often repeated, that we must take it altogether in the exposition of it, and endeavour to digest it into proper heads, for we cannot divide it into paragraphs. I.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 4:1-40
The likeness of anything that creepeth on the ground,.... As serpents by many; and indeed that creature is introduced into almost all the idolatries of the Heathens, which seems to take its rise from the serpent Satan made use of to deceive our first parents: the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; as the crocodile and hippopotamus, or river...
Deu 4:17-18 They were also not to make an image of any kind of beast; a caution against imitating the animal worship of Egypt.
Commenting on Deuteronomy 4:17-18