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Psalms 58:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

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, Deuteronomy 18:11; Isaiah 19:3

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