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Locusts Permitted for Food

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 27, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 25.

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Locusts Permitted for Food

By C. M. D.

3488 — C. M. D. Lev. 11:21 — This passage is a general description of four kinds of locusts, or grasshoppers, permitted for food and named in the next verse. "Beetle," and "cricket" as in A.R.V., are both probably misleading. See the margin of A.R.V., which reads: "Four kinds of locusts or grasshoppers, which are not certainly known." John the Baptist ate locusts, Matt. 3:4, a food used by the poor nomadic tribes of the desert.