Thematic Bible: Cockatrice
Thematic Bible
Cockatrice » Figurative
Look, I'll send snakes among you, vipers that cannot be charmed, and they'll bite you."
The nursing child will play over the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child will put his hand on vipers' dens.
They hatch adders' eggs and weave a spider's web; whoever eats their eggs dies, and any crushed egg hatches out futility.
"Don't rejoice, all of you Philistines, that the rod that struck you is broken, because from the snake's root a viper will spring up, and its offspring will be a darting, poisonous serpent.