Monday, September 14, 2009


"So Moses prayed for the people, and the Lord said to Moses, 'Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if any who have been bitten look at it, they will live.' Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.'

-The Book of Numbers 21: 7-9
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  1. AnonymousSeptember 14, 2009 at 1:32 PM

    I read the passage and wondered what I should be getting out of it. Is this just an example of a miracle or is there deeper meaning within the context of the passages that surround it? Also, is there a parallel with salvation from original sin?

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  2. David LeibergSeptember 14, 2009 at 2:03 PM

    Yeah, it prefigures the cross, 'the lifting up of the Son of Man' and the healing of sin. The reading is also longer than I have here: Numbers 21: 4-9

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