<div>David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
Interesting in this context that a venomous fang may be used to produce its own antidote (by injection into horses).</blockquote></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>I'm also reminded that Jesus said he would be lifted up on the cross just as Moses lifted up the bronze <i>serpent</i> in the desert, so that all who looked toward it would be healed of their fiery snake bite. So, as it turns out, Jesus became a seraph on the cross (so to speak), taking the enemy's own form in order to redeem all things (including that serpentine form itself - the prophet Isaiah says a little child will be able to reach into the cobra's hole in the new creation and not be harmed - i.e. snakes persist even in the resurrected renewed creation of the Eschaton). <div>
<br></div><div>Very Wolfean. (That is, Wolfe's work is deeply imbued with the Bible's sense of soteriological irony and paradox.)<div><br></div><div>The Claw, then, is perhaps a thorn, which can perhaps resonate with a serpent's fang (I forget just why this was proposed), all of which imagery may (biblically) symbolise initially the fall and subsequently salvation.</div>
<div><br></div><div>-DOJP<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:18 AM, David Stockhoff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" target="_blank">dstockhoff@verizon.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Interesting in this context that a venomous fang may be used to produce its own antidote (by injection into horses).<br>
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The origin of the Rod of Asclepius was discussed here some time ago, and it has nothing to do with snakes. But still ...<br>
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On 11/26/2012 5:12 PM, Daniel Petersen wrote:<br>
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E.g. 'claw' is a thing of tearing and death in a fallen world but becomes, in the Conciliator, a thing of healing. <br>
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