The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ color. Its name, shephiphon, occursonly once in the Bible, but the fact that the Arabs still call the cerastesshiphon leaves no doubt as to the reptile meant. Dan shall be aserpent by the way, says the dying Jacob, an adder in the path, thatbiteth the horses beels, so that his rider shall fall backward.^ It isthe habit of the horned snake to coil itself in the sand, where it basksin the foot-print of a camel or other animal, darting out suddenlj^ onany passing beast. So great is the terror which the sight of itinspires in horses, saj^s Canon Tristram, that I ha
The Holy Land and the Bible; . ^ color. Its name, shephiphon, occursonly once in the Bible, but the fact that the Arabs still call the cerastesshiphon leaves no doubt as to the reptile meant. Dan shall be aserpent by the way, says the dying Jacob, an adder in the path, thatbiteth the horses beels, so that his rider shall fall backward.^ It isthe habit of the horned snake to coil itself in the sand, where it basksin the foot-print of a camel or other animal, darting out suddenlj^ onany passing beast. So great is the terror which the sight of itinspires in horses, saj^s Canon Tristram, that I have known mine, 1 Bythner, Lyre of David. Dees Translation, p. 165. 2 Job xx. 16. 3 Num. xxi. 9; Eceles. —11; Prov. xxiii. 32. 4 Eceles. x. 8. 5 Amos v. 19. 6 Isa. 7 Fiov. xxx. 19. 8 Gen. xlix. For he brins:eth down themHint flu-ell on high : the loftycity ho hiyeth it low. even to the{rround ; he l)rin,2:eth it even tothe dust.—Tsa. xxvi. 5. Intliatday will I raise up thetabernacle of David that is fall-on, and close up tlie breachestliovcof ; a:;d I will raise up hisruins, rnd I will hnild it as intl:o days of old.—Auxos. ix. 11. HUIXS OF ST. JOHNS CHURCH NEAR BEIT JIBRIN. (See page 187.) XI.] (;ki{ai{. 157 wIkmi T \v:is ridiuf^ in tlic Sahara, siuldciily start and rear, tremblingand })iring in every limb, and no ])crsuasion would induce him toi)roceed. I was (juite unable to account for liis terror till I noticed acerastes coiled up in a depression, two or three paces in front, with itsbasilisk eyes steadily lixed on us, and uo doubt ju-eparing for a sjiringas the horse passed.^ Like the wily snake, Dan was to owe his suc-cesses more to stratagem than to open bravery: a trait marked in thehistory of the tribe. The snake known in the Authorized Version as the vip
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