For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:
Ver. 7. For every kind of beasts, &c.] See Trapp on " Heb 2:7 " Some creatures indeed may be taken, but not tamed, as the tiger, panther, monoceros, of which last it is testified, quod interimi potest, capi non potest; slain he may be, but not taken. Such unruly talkers and deceivers the Church is pestered with, Titus 1:10; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; sons of Belial, untamable, untractable, untouchable, unteachable, 2 Samuel 23:6,7 1 Samuel 25:17 .