Latin · AI translation
Philastrius, Saint, Bishop of Brescia, Diversarum hereseon liber
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
21.2.1
inque hoc iussit dominus ut faceret Moses serpentem aereum, ac suspenderet eum in medio populi supra lignum; et qui intuebantur in eum, saluabantur a plagis atque diuersis uulneribus. Illi ergo serpenti aereo usque ad regem Ezechiam sacrificabat Iudaeorum populus; formationes etiam in lapide magno uelut obelisco, qui erat in templo positus pro columna, et in eo incisiones et impressiones manu hominum et ut litterarum quarundam sculpentes Iudaei, et formulas diuersas tollentes et ponentes in lammina baiulabant in collo:
and for this the Lord commanded Moses to make a bronze serpent and hang it in the midst of the people upon a pole; and those who looked at it were saved from the strikes and from various wounds. To that bronze serpent, then, the people of the Jews sacrificed until King Hezekiah; the Jews also, carving figures on a great stone like an obelisk, which had been set in the temple as a pillar, and on it incisions and impressions made by men’s hands, as if of certain letters, and taking various formulas and placing them on a thin metal plate, carried them on their necks:
Translator's note. The second sentence has no main verb until baiulabant (‘carried’); the carving on the stone and the amulets worn on the neck are run together, and the construction is loose.
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