Psalms 58:3-6
estranged etc. Ps 51:5; Job 15:14; Prov 22:15; Isa 48:8; Eph 2:3 as soon etc. Heb. from the belly, Ps 22:10; Isa 46:3 poison Ps 140:3; Eccl 10:11; Rom 3:13; Jas 3:8 like Heb. according to the likeness of serpent Matt 3:7, Matt 23:33 the deaf Jer 8:17, adder or asp, Pethen, is no doubt the boeten of the Arabians, which M. Forskal describes as spotted with black and white, about one foot in length, nearly half an inch thick, oviparous, and its bite almost instant death. It is the aspic of the ancients, and is so called the literati of Cyprus, though the common people call it κουφη, deaf. Job 20:14, Job 20:16; Isa 11:8 Which That serpents might be charmed or rendered harmless was well known to the ancients. Virgil, and many others state the fact - Frigidus in pratis cantando, rumpitur anguis. "In the meadows the cold snake is burst by incantation." charming never so wisely or, be the charmer never so cunning, Deut 18:11; Isa 19:3 Break their Ps 3:7, Ps 10:15; Job 4:10-11, Job 29:17; Ezek 30:21-26 young Ps 17:12, Ps 91:13; Num 23:24; Isa 31:4; Hos 5:14; Mic 5:8
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