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bsequent insertion, intended to account retroactively for the existence of such an idol in Jerusalem. For the principal fact remains that a brazen serpent idol was destroyed by King Hezekiah under the influence of the prophet Isaiah. The prophets fought most bitterly against idolatrous cults that engaged in human sacrifice and worshipped animals, and this struggle forms the crux of Oriental and of Christian reform movements down to the mos

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• t recent times. Clearly the setting up of the serpent
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• is in star
• kest contradiction to the Ten Commandments, i
• n sharpest opposition
• to the hosti
• lity to images that essentially motivates the reforming prophets. But there
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• is another reason
• why every student
• of the Bible should c
• onsider the serpent the most provocative symbol of hostility: the serpent on the tree in Paradise dominates the biblical