The works of the Reverend and learned John Lightfoot D. D., late Master of Katherine Hall in Cambridge such as were, and such as never before were printed : in two volumes : with the authors life and large and useful tables to each volume : also three maps : one of the temple drawn by the author himself, the others of Jervsalem and the Holy Land drawn according to the author's chorography, with a description collected out of his writings.

Lightfoot, John, 1602-1675., G. B. (George Bright), d. 1696., Strype, John, 1643-1737.

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CHAP. XLVIII. Ophitae Evia.

SOme Hereticks in Epiphanius think themselves beholden to the Devil, for his pains that he took to overthrow Adam: for they used to worship a Serpent, because (say they) he brought knowledge into the world. Clemens Alexandrinus doth partly think, this conceit was got among the Heathens: who at their Feasts of Bacchus used to carry a Serpent, as it were in procession, and to cry Evia Evia.〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, &c. And Evia (saith Clemens) if it be asperated Hevia, it signifies in the Hebrew Tongue, a female Serpent. Where the good man calls the Chaldec Tongue, the Hebrew: For in the Hebrew I do not find such a word for a Serpent: But all the Chaldee translations of the Bible in the third of Genesis and diverse other places, do use the word 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉Hivia for a Serpent: which I take to be the word he means.

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