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ISBE: SERPENT-CHARMING
Serpent | Serpent Worship | Serpent, Brazen | Serpent, Crooked | Serpent, Fiery | Serpent-Charming | Serug | Servant | Servant Of The Lord | Servanthood | Servants, Solomon'S

Serpent-Charming

SERPENT-CHARMING [ISBE]

SERPENT-CHARMING - -charm'-ing: Allusion to this art, widely practiced by the ancients (see references in DB, under the word; especially Bothart, Hieron., III, 161, 164, etc.), as by modern Orientals, is found in Ps 58:5; Eccl 10:11; Jer 8:17; Sirach 12:13, perhaps in Jas 3:7. The skill displayed in taming snakes, often without removing the poison fangs, is very surprising. Bruce, Davy, and other travelers give striking illustrations. See especially the interesting account of serpent-charming in Hengstenberg's Egypt and the Books of Moses, English Translation, 100-104.




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