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Christ smashing the head of the serpent; Moses lifting up the serpent on a cross-shaped pole (Num. 21.8-9). Etching by Rothwell.
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Christ smashing the head of the serpent; Moses lifting up the serpent on a cross-shaped pole (Num. 21.8-9). Etching by Rothwell.

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Lettering: I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, it shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel - Gen.3.15. As Moses lifted up the serpent in the Wilderness, even so, shall the son of man be lifted up - John 3.14.

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