. A dictionary of the Bible .. . nmity that was henceforth to exist betweenthe serpent and mankind; and though, of course,this has more especial allusion to the devil, whoseinstrument the serpent was in his deceit, yet it isperfectly true of the serpent. Few will be inclinedto dilier with Theocritus (/li. xv. 58):— TOi ^J/vxpoi/ 6ff)Li TajaaAtcrra SefiotKwEk TTatfio?. Serpents are said in Scripture to eat dust (seeGen. iii. 14; Is. Ixv. L5; Jlic. vii. 17); , which for the most part take their fondon the giound, do consequently swallow with itlarge portions of sand and dust. Almost
. A dictionary of the Bible .. . nmity that was henceforth to exist betweenthe serpent and mankind; and though, of course,this has more especial allusion to the devil, whoseinstrument the serpent was in his deceit, yet it isperfectly true of the serpent. Few will be inclinedto dilier with Theocritus (/li. xv. 58):— TOi ^J/vxpoi/ 6ff)Li TajaaAtcrra SefiotKwEk TTatfio?. Serpents are said in Scripture to eat dust (seeGen. iii. 14; Is. Ixv. L5; Jlic. vii. 17); , which for the most part take their fondon the giound, do consequently swallow with itlarge portions of sand and dust. Almost throughout the East, writes {Hist, and Crit. Comment. Gen. iii. 1), the seipent was used as an emblem of the evilprinciple, of the spirit of disobedience and con-tumacy. A few exceptions only can be Phoenicians adored that animal as a beneficentgenius; and the Chinese consider it as a symbol ofsuperior wisdom anil power, and ascribe to thekings of heaven (tien-hoangs) bodies of serpents. SERPENT 1213. the one hand, the attribute of Ceres, of Mercury, andof Aesculapius, in theii- most beneficent qualities;but it forms, on the other hand, a part of the terribleFuries or Eumenides: it appears in the form of aPython as a fearful monster, which the arrows of agod only were able to destroy ; and it is the mosthideous and most formidable part of the impiousgiants who desi>ise and blaspheme the power of
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