Then the Bible, that serpent which, with head
erect and eyes flashing fire, threatens us with its venom
whilst it trails along the ground, shall be changed again
into a rod as soon as we are able to seize it; [...] Oh, then, mysterious rod!
we will not again suffer thee to escape from our hands, and fall to the earth!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past, this cruel asp (crudele aspide) has left us no repose; you well know with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!
For you know but too well that, for three centuries past, this cruel asp (crudele aspide) has left us no repose; you well know with what folds it entwines us, and with what fangs it gnaws us!
Leone, Jacopo, The Jesuit Conspiracy: The Secret Plan of the Order, London: Chapman and Hall, 1848, p. 98.
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