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

1871 Reformed

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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