Serpent: Figurative
Jump to: Nave'sLibrarySubtopics
Nave's Topical Index
Isaiah 14:29
Rejoice not you, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote you is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
Nave's Topical Index

Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from where come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches on the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures on the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Nave's Topical Index

Isaiah 65:25
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.
Nave's Topical Index

Library

Ignorance of Things, Too, Renders Figurative Expressions Obscure.. ...
... Ignorance of things, too, renders figurative expressions obscure, as when we do
not know ... The fact so well known about the serpent, for example, that to protect ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books/chapter 24 ignorance of things.htm

The Knowledge Both of Language and Things is Helpful for the ...
... Ignorance of things, too, renders figurative expressions obscure, as when we do
not know ... The fact so well known about the serpent, for example, that to protect ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 16 the knowledge both of.htm

The Leaven.
... in the Scriptures.[20] Of these, as far as I know, the different and opposite
figurative significations of the serpent are the most striking and appropriate. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/arnot/the parables of our lord/iv the leaven.htm

The Same Word Does not Always Signify the Same Thing.
... And when it is shown to be figurative, the words in which it is expressed will be ...
about seeking whom he may devour." [1884] In the same way the serpent is used ...
/.../on christian doctrine in four books /chapter 25 the same word does.htm

On the Words of the Gospel, Matt. xiii. 19, Etc. , Where the Lord ...
... are in propriety of expression; the Latter both together in a figurative sense ... The
devil again is a serpent, "that old serpent;" [2513] are we commanded then to ...
/.../sermons on selected lessons of the new testament/sermon xxiii on the words.htm

John Chapter iii. 21-Jun
... they who looked on that serpent perished not by the serpent's bites, so ... have everlasting
life." Now there is this difference between the figurative image and ...
/.../augustine/homilies on the gospel of john/tractate xii john chapter iii.htm

Give us Today Our Needful Bread
... ember-cakes, and to observe that this may perhaps simply be told in a figurative
sense. ... becomes a son of God whereas he that has portion in the serpent is none ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origen on prayer/chapter xvii give us today.htm

Against Embellishing the Body.
... And that deceitful serpent, devouring the understanding part of man through ... not to
approach to another's river, meaning by the figurative expression "another's ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter ii against embellishing the body.htm

Lorimer -- the Fall of Satan
... neither can they escape the suspicion of being designedly figurative; intended,
probably ... his angels fighting against the dragon, "that old serpent called the ...
/.../kleiser/the worlds great sermons volume 8/lorimer the fall of.htm

Faustus Rejects the Old Testament Because it Leaves no Room for ...
... Such expressions are sometimes used as figurative descriptions of the abundance
of spiritual ... as the fire in the bush, the rod becoming a serpent, and the ...
/.../faustus rejects the old testament.htm

Subtopics

Serpent

Serpent Worship

Serpent: Constriction of

Serpent: Curse Upon

Serpent: Feeds Upon the Dust

Serpent: Fiery (Poisonous), Sent As a Plague Upon the Israelites

Serpent: Figurative

Serpent: Mentioned in Solomon's Riddle

Serpent: Satan Appears to Eve in the Form of

Serpent: Sea Serpent

Serpent: Subtlety of

Serpent: The Apostles Given Power Over

Serpent: The Charming of

Serpent: The Seventy Disciples (The Best Mss Have "Seventy-Two") Endued With Power Over

Serpent: The Staff of Moses Transformed Into

Serpent: The Wound of, Miraculously Healed by Looking Upon the Bronze Snake, Erected by Moses

Serpent: Unfit for Food

Serpent: Venom of

Links
Bible ConcordanceBible DictionaryBible EncyclopediaTopical BibleBible Thesuarus
Seron
Top of Page
Top of Page