[[91]] Wisd. xi. 16.

[[92]] Elian. Hist. Animal.

[[93]] Numb. xxi. 2 Kings xviii. 4.

[[94]] 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.

[[95]] Aug. tom. viii. pp. 28, 284.

[[96]] Ab-racha, pater mali, or pater malus.

[[97]] August. de Gen. ad Lit. 1. ii. c. 18.

[[98]] Matt. iv. 9, 10, &c.

[[99]] Gen. xxxii. 24, 25.

[[100]] Sever. Sulpit. Hist. Sac.