Isaiah 11:8
Douay-Rheims
And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp: and the weaned child shall thrust his hand into the den of the basilisk.
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
play--literally, "delight" himself in sport. cockatrice--a fabulous serpent supposed to be hatched from the egg of a cock. The Hebrew means a kind of adder, more venomous than the asp; BOCHART supposes the basilisk to be meant, which was thought to poison even with its breath.
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1871 · Isaiah 11:8
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