Bel and the Dragon.
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Wisd. xi. 16.
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Elian. Hist. Animal.
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Numb. xxi. 2 Kings xviii. 4.
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On this subject, see a work of profound learning, and as interesting as profound, on "The Worship of the Serpent," by the Rev. John Bathurst Deane, M. A. F. S. A.
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Aug. tom. viii. pp. 28, 284.
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Ab-racha, pater mali, or pater malus.
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August. de Gen. ad Lit. 1. ii. c. 18.
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Matt. iv. 9, 10, &c.
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Gen. xxxii. 24, 25.
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Sever. Sulpit. Hist. Sac.
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A small city or town of the Electorate of Cologne, situated on a river of the same name.
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There were in all ten letters, the greater part of them Greek, but which formed no (apparent) sense. They were to be seen at Molsheim, in the tablet which bore a representation of this miracle.
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Lib. de Anima.
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1 Pet. iii. 8.
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Eph. vi. 11. 1 Tim. iii. 7.
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Sulpit. Sever. Vit. St. Martin, b. xv.
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2 Cor. xi. 14.
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Job i. 6-8.
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1 Kings xxii. 21.
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Exod. ix. 6.
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Gen. xviii. 13, 14.
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Gen. xxxviii.
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Prov. xvii. 11.
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Rev. ii. 24.
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