Anf-02 vi.iv.i.v Pg 9.1
Anf-03 v.iv.v.xxiv Pg 45
Isa. xi. 8, 9.
And, indeed, we are aware (without doing violence to the literal sense of the passage, since even these noxious animals have actually been unable to do hurt where there has been faith) that under the figure of scorpions and serpents are portended evil spirits, whose very prince is described4457 4457 Deputetur.
by the name of serpent, dragon, and every other most conspicuous beast in the power of the Creator.4458 4458 Penes Creatorem.
This power the Creator conferred first of all upon His Christ, even as the ninetieth Psalm says to Him: “Upon the asp and the basilisk shalt Thou tread; the lion and the dragon shalt Thou trample under foot.”4459 4459
Edersheim Bible History
Lifetimes viii.xxiii Pg 113.1
Treasury of Scriptural Knowledge, Chapter 4
VERSE (32) - Pr 4:18 Isa 11:9
