In it, a giant crowned figure is seen emerging from the landscape, clutching a sword and a crosier, beneath a quote from the Book of Job-" Non est potestas Super Terram quae Comparetur ei.
The frontispiece has two main elements, of which the upper part is by far the more striking. It is similar in organisation to the frontispiece of Hobbes' De Cive (1642), created by Jean Matheus. Frontispiece Īfter lengthy discussion with Thomas Hobbes, the Parisian Abraham Bosse created the etching for the book's famous frontispiece in the géometrique style which Bosse himself had refined. In the Westminster Assembly's annotations on the Bible, the interpreters believed that the creature was named using these root words "because by his bignesse he seemes not one single creature, but a coupling of divers together or because his scales are closed, or straitly compacted together." Samuel Mintz suggests that these connotations lend themselves to Hobbes's understanding of political force since both "Leviathan and Hobbes's sovereign are unities compacted out of separate individuals they are omnipotent they cannot be destroyed or divided they inspire fear in men they do not make pacts with men theirs is the dominion of power" on pain of death. Lexicographers in the early modern period believed that the term " leviathan" was associated with the Hebrew words lavah, meaning "to couple, connect, or join", and thannin, meaning "a serpent or dragon". In contrast to the simply informative titles usually given to works of early modern political philosophy, such as John Locke's Two Treatises of Government or Hobbes's own earlier work The Elements of Law, Hobbes selected a more poetic name for this more provocative treatise. The title of Hobbes's treatise alludes to the Leviathan mentioned in the Book of Job.
1.6 Part IV: Of the Kingdom of Darkness.1.5 Part III: Of a Christian Commonwealth.
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