<div><div><br></div><div>I don't think seraphim are affirmatively both angelic and serpentine in the canonical books.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br>-- <br>Jeff Wilson</font></span></div><div><br></div>
<div><br></div><div>For what it's worth:</div><div><br></div><div> 1) serpent, fiery serpent</div><div> 1a) poisonous serpent (fiery from burning effect of poison)</div><div> 2) seraph, seraphim</div><div> 2a) majestic beings with 6 wings, human hands or voices in attendance</div>
<div> upon God</div><div>—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)</div><div><br></div><div>From H8313; burning, that is, (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color):—fiery (serpent), seraph.</div>
<div>—Strong's (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)</div></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/8314.html">http://lexiconcordance.com/hebrew/8314.html</a></div><div><br>
</div><div><br></div><div>-DOJP</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jeff Wilson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com" target="_blank">jwilson@clueland.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 11/26/2012 2:30 PM, Bill Burgess wrote:<br>
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Now that you mention Quetzal.<br>
This reminds me of Quetzacoatl, the Aztec flying serpent god.<br>
who was some derivation of the central myth of the aztec which involved<br>
an eagle with a serpent in its talents and is on the Mexican flag.<br>
We've already been told my Wolfe to view the claw as something like the<br>
talons of the eagle of jove, so he clearly links talons and fangs in<br>
his mythologies.<br>
Also, in the Bible, Seraphim are flying fiery serpents and angelic beings.<br>
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I don't think seraphim are affirmatively both angelic and serpentine in the canonical books.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Jeff Wilson - <a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com" target="_blank">jwilson@clueland.com</a><br>
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana<br>
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