The Truth is, that among all the Horribles that we dress up Satan in, I cannot but think we shew the least of Invention in this of a Goat, or a Thing with a Goat's Foot, of all the rest; for tho' a Goat is a Creature made use of by our Saviour in the Allegory of the Day of Judgment, and is said there to represent the wicked rejected Party, yet it seems to be only on Account of their Similitude to the Sheep, and so to represent the just Fate of Hypocrisy and Hypocrites, and in particular to form the necessary Antithesis in the Story; for else, _our whimsical Fancies excepted_, a Sheep or a Lamb has a Cloven-Foot as well as a Goat; nay, if the Scripture be of any Value in the Case, 'tis to the _Devil_'s Advantage, for the dividing the Hoof was the distinguishing Character or Mark of a clean Beast, and how the Devil can be brought into that Number is pretty hard to say. One would have thought if we had intended to have given a just Figure of the _Devil_, it would have been more apposite to have rank'd him among the Cat-kind, and given him a Foot (if he is to be known by his Foot) like a Lion, or like a _red Dragon_, being the same Creatures which he is represented by in the Text, and so his Claws would have had some Terror in them as well as his Teeth. But neither is the _Goat_ a true Representative of the Devil at all, for we do not rank the Goats among the Subtle or cunning Part of the Brutes; he is counted a fierce Creature indeed of his Kind, tho' nothing like those other abovemention'd; and he is emblematically used to represent a lustful Temper, but even that Part does not fully serve to describe the Devil, whose Operation lies principally another Way. Besides it is not the _Goat_ himself that is made use of, 'tis the Cloven-Hoof only, and that so particularly, that the _Cloven Foot_ of a Ram or a Swine, or any other Creature, may serve as well as that of a _Goat_, only that History gives us some Cause to call it the _Goat_'s _Foot_.