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The Serpent of Eden: A Philological and Critical Essay on the Text of Genesis III, and Its Various Interpretations is unavailable, but you can change that!

To Jews and Christians alike, the narrative of the temptation and fall of man is an article of faith. It’s the very foundation of the edifice of faith; the very groundwork of the whole scheme of redemption. It is an article of faith that Eve was tempted by “the Serpent” and fell—that she, in turn, tempted Adam, who also fell—and that Adam, Eve, and this “Serpent” were subjected each to a special...

“And he said* unto the woman,” not by any articulate audible speech, made to proceed preternaturally from the jaws of a possessed bestial serpent, or of an apparitional one; but by an internal and inaudible, yet most intelligible and soul-felt communication, of mind with mind and spirit with spirit. Thus God speaks to the heart of man with His inspirations, and our guardian angels communicate with us; and thus, too, the same Satan daily and hourly speaks to ourselves, in our various temptations.
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