The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world, and its tradition referred to the events in Paradise: proving the temptation and fall of man by the instrumentality of a serpent tempter / [John Bathurst Deane].

  • John Bathurst Deane
Date:
1830
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Credit: The worship of the serpent traced throughout the world, and its tradition referred to the events in Paradise: proving the temptation and fall of man by the instrumentality of a serpent tempter / [John Bathurst Deane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The deception of Eve by Satan, through the instrumentality of a serpent, has ever been an object of ridicule with the profane, who, read- ing without reflection, or reflecting without reading, deem that a “ foolishness,” which they cannot understand ; and that “ a stumbling block,” which they cannot explain away. Thus faith has been shaken, by an incredulous sneer, which had defied the sophistry of the acutest sceptic; and Christians, who would have scorned to be argued out of their religion, have not been ashamed to be laughed out of it. To establish, by the testimony of heathen authorities, the credibility of the temptation and fall of man in Paradise, by the agency of Satan in a serpent's form, is the endeavour of the following treatise : nor is it with a vain