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Sin
Sin is Iconologically describ’d, by a young man, blind, naked, and of a swarthy colour, rambling in a rugged
path, with precipices on each side of him, girt round with a serpint, which is gnawing
at his heart.His youth denotes his imprudence, and his blindness the commission of sin; his rambling
a deviating from, and a transgression of the laws of God and Man; The precipices, the danger he is continually in, even in this life; his being naked
and swarthy, that sin deprives man of grace, and the purity of virtue: And the serpent
is a symbol of Satan, seeking continually to delude him with false appearances.
Definition taken from
The Universal Etymological English Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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Snake [Hieroglyphically]