| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - old serpent (o); wherefore John uses this phrase as a known one, to explain who was meant by the great dragon: called the devil and Satan; the first of these names signifies an accuser, and a forger of calumnies, and such is the old serpent; he accuses God to men, as if he was envious of their happiness, as in the case of our first parents, and of men to God, of which there is an instance in the
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