eat all the days of thy life.” Satan, being an incorporeal spirit, has no corporeal belly on which to go, in a literal sense; and as he requires no material sustenance, he neither eats dust nor any other food, in a literal sense. We find, however, on examination, that these two expressions have a very definite and special sense and meaning in the Holy Scriptures. The two clauses, through insensible gradations and through various shades of meaning, merge into the one idea, which in scriptural usage
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