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Who will pity a charmer that is bitten by a snake, or any who come near wild beasts?
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Verse 13. Beasts. Vipers, and so forth Why should they familiarize themselves with such? Some Italians still handle serpents without fear, pretending that they are the descendants of Saint Paul. Calmet.—But he was never married, (1 Corinthians 7 Bible.) and they are rather of the race of the Marsi, who formerly claimed the same privilege, having made use of some drugs to prevent the poison. The ancients believed that they could charm serpents.
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