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Secum feret omina mortis.
He carries with him the signs of death.
Le serpent de bronze eslevé par Moïse,
[M]
(duquel le sine guerissoit les spectateurs, estans en dan-
ger de mort par morsures de serpens enflammez,)
prefiguroit avec la Croix de Jesuchrist, aussi notre sa-
lut & redempcion.
[Marginalia - link to text]Nomb. 29.
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