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Nature of the Serpent , Genesis ili . l .
[ From Dr . Adam Clarke ' s Bible ] The word in the text which we , follftwing the Septuagint , translate serpent , is nachasfi , and according to Buxtorf and others , has three meanings in
scripture-1 . It signifi « s to view , or observe attentively * to divine or use enchantfnents , because in them the augurs viewecf attentively theflight of birds , the entrails of beasts , the course of the clouds , &tc . and under this head it signifies to acquire
Tcnowledge by experience . 2 . It signifies -brass , brazen , and is translated in our Bible , not only bfyss , ' but chains , fetters , fetters of * brass , and in several places steel : see 2 Sam . xxii . 35 . Job , xx . 24 . Psalm xviii . 34 . and in
one place , at least , Ji lt nines s or fornication , Ezek . xvi . 36 * 3 . It signifies a serpent , but of what Irind is not ; determined . In Job kxvi , 13 , it seems to mean the whale or Hippopotamus . By his spirit he hath garnished the Hea *
Tens , his hand hath formed the trooked serpent , nachash bariach : as barach signifies to pass on , or pass through , and beriach , is used tor a bar of a gate or door , that passed through rings , frc . the idea of straightness i rather than crookedness , should be attached to it
here ; and it is likely that the seehorse is intended by it . . In Eccles . x . 2 . the creature cqjled nachash , of whatsoever sort , js compared to the babbler ; surety the serpent , nuchtsh , mill bitt
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without enchantment and a babbler is no better . Let the reader keep this in mind . In Isaiah xxvii . 1 . the crocodile or aligator , seems particularly meant by the original . In that day the Lord shall punish JLem viathan the piercing serpent , SfC And in Isaiah Ixv . 25 . the sairui
creature is meant , as in Gen . iii . 1 « for in the words , and dust shall be the serpent s meat , there is an evident allusion to the text of Moses . In Amos ix . 3 . the croc ~
odile is evidently intended . Though they be hid in the bottom of the sea * thence will I command the serpent ^ hcunachosh , and lie ' shall bitt them . No person can sup . pose that any of the snake or serm pent kiud can be intended here ; and we see from the various
acceptations of the word , and the different senses which it bears in various places in the sacred writings , that it appears to be a sort of general termy coqfined to no one sense . Hence it will be
necessary to examine the root accurately , to see if its ideal meaning will enable us to ascertain the animal intended in the text . We have already seen that nachash signifies to view attentively , to acquire knowledge or experience by attentive observation : so
nacha&h-ti , Gen . xxx . 27 . I have learned b y experience—and this seems to be its most general meaning in the Bible . The original word is , by the Septuagint , translated o < pi $ a serpefit , not because this was its Jited determinate meaning in the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1812, page 16, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1744/page/16/
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