There is no power on earth to be compared with him (Job).
The inscription and image on the front cover serve to instill fear, Hobbes' believed impediment to power, in a commenwealth's people. I think it is sort of an inverse vantage point to Machiavelli; both believe in ruling by fear, but Machiavelli views the principle from the ruler's stance whereas Hobbes seems to view it from the people's. Machiavelli advocates fear as a necessity to the ruler, and Hobbes advocates fear as a necessity to the people.
As mentioned in last class, it's ironic how Hobbes uses art and figurative language to form the Leviathan (the image, not the work). I believe he does so to take advantage of a metaphor's "deception" (102), straying from reason and pursuing indefiniteness for the sake of instilling fear. I read some of Job 41, from which the quote on the cover was extracted. Pretty intense. And just look at the cover. Imagine one of those little guys starting to break away from the group, and the big guy slowly shifts his gaze towards the wanderer and decimates him with his broadswoard. Or smashes him with that thingy in his left. I'm sleeping with the light on tonight.
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