From Nave’s Topical Bible
Asp
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 8Passages listed
- 6Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- A venomous serpentDeuteronomy 32:33Job 20:14Job 20:16Isaiah 11:8Romans 3:13
- Venom of, illustrates the speech of the wickedPsalms 140:3Romans 3:13
- Injurious effects of wineDeuteronomy 32:33Proverbs 23:32
- Deprived of venom, illustrates conversionIsaiah 11:8Isaiah 11:9
The passages, in Bible order (8)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 8 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Deuteronomy 32:33
Their wine is the venom of serpents, the deadly poison of cobras.
Commentary on Deuteronomy 32:332 voices
Their wine is the poison of dragons,.... Of these creatures, both land and sea dragons; see Gill on Mic 1:8; See Gill on Mal 1:3; Pliny says (l) the dragon has no poison in it; yet, as Dalechamp, in his notes on that writer observes, he in many places prescribes remedies against the bite of the dragon; but Heliodorus (m) expressly speaks of some archers, whose arrows were infected with the poison of dragons; and Leo Africanus (n) says, the Atlantic dragons are exceeding poisonous: and yet other writers (o) besides Pliny have asserted that they are free from poison.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
They were planted a choice vine, wholly a right seed, but by sin had become the degenerate plant of a strange vine ( Jer. ii. 21 ), and not only transcribed the iniquity of Sodom, but outdid it, Ezek. xvi.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Job 20:14
yet in his stomach his food sours into the venom of cobras within him.
Commentary on Job 20:142 voices
Turned - From sweet to bitter. Gall of asps - Exceeding bitter and pernicious. Gall is most bitter; the gall of serpents is full of poison; and the poison of asps is most dangerous and within a few hours kills without remedy.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
They have theories that are not sweet but as the gall of asps, that is, evil; and those theories come from the wine of their doctrine. "For their wine comes from the vine of Sodom." The gall of asps is in the belly of the heretics and those who declare impious dogmas contrary to truth.
Origen of Alexandria· FRAGMENTS ON JOB 14.41Patristic
- Job 20:16
He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him.
Commentary on Job 20:162 voices
Ver. 16. He shall suck the head of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 19. The 'asp' is a small serpent, but the 'viper' hath more length of body. And asps produce eggs, and their young are hatched from the eggs. But when vipers have conceived, their 'young ravin in their womb, which bursting the parents' sides issue out of their bellies. Hence too it is called the 'viper,' because it is a 'parent by violence.'
Gregory the Dialogist· Morals on the Book of Job, Book XVPatristic
He shall suck the poison of asps - That delicious morsel, that secret, easily-besetting sin, so palatable, and so pleasurable, shall act on the life of his soul, as the poison of asps would do on the life of his body. The poison is called the gall of asps, it being anciently supposed that the poison of serpents consists in their gall, which is thought to be copiously exuded when those animals are enraged; as it has been often seen that their bite is not poisonous when they are not angry.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Psalms 140:3
They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
Commentary on Psalms 140:32 voices
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. The rapid motion of a viper's tongue gives you the idea of its sharpening it; even thus do the malicious move their tongues at such a rate that one might suppose them to be in the very act of wearing them to a point, or rubbing them to a keen edge. It was a common notion that serpents inserted their poison by their tongues, and the poets used the idea as a poetical expression, although it is certain that the serpent wounds by his fangs and not by his tongue.
Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David, Vol. 7, 1885
The venom of asps is under their lips. For they seem to have words of friendship, yet they are full of death-dealing poison.
Jerome· Homily 50, on Psalm 139Patristic
- Proverbs 23:32
In the end it bites like a snake and stings like a viper.
Commentary on Proverbs 23:321 voice
To take off the force of the temptation that there is in the pleasure of the sin, foresee the punishment of it, and what it will at last end in if repentance prevent not. In its latter end it bites (so the word is); think therefore what will be in the end thereof. But the inspired writer chooses to specify those pernicious consequences of this sin which are present and sensible.
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710Puritan
- Isaiah 11:8
The infant will play by the cobra’s den, and the toddler will reach into the viper’s nest.
Commentary on Isaiah 11:82 voices
Listen to how the flesh of God becomes an antidote: The Word became flesh; He put His hand into the den of vipers, He expelled the venom, He removed sin; that is, He condemned sin in the flesh.
Ambrose of Milan· Commentaries on the Twelve Davidic Psalms, On Psalm 37.4Patristic
The cockatrice’ den - This is supposed, both by the Targum and by Kimchi, to mean the pupil of this serpent’s eye. “When,” says Kimchi, “he is in the mouth of his den, in an obscure place, then his eyes sparkle exceedingly: the child, seeing this, and supposing it to be a piece of crystal, or precious stone, puts forth his hand to take it. What would be very dangerous at another time, shall be safe in the days of the Messiah; for the serpent will not hurt the child.”
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
- Isaiah 11:9
They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.
Commentary on Isaiah 11:92 voices
But now, to all the earth has gone forth their voice, and all the earth has been filled with the knowledge of God, and the disciples have made disciples of all the nations, and now is fulfilled what is written: "They shall be all taught of God." And then what was revealed was but a type; but now the truth has been manifested.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Discourses Against the Arians 1.13.8Patristic
They shall not hurt - That is, those who are designated above under the emblems of the lion, the leopard, the bear, and the adder. Nor destroy in all my holy mountain - Mount Zion; used here, as elsewhere, to denote the seat of his reign on the earth, or his church; the notes at Isa 1:8; Isa 2:4. The disposition of people, naturally ferocious and cruel, shall be changed so entirely, that the causes of strife and contention shall cease. They shall be disposed to do justice, and to promote each other’s welfare everywhere.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)Evangelical
- Romans 3:13
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
Commentary on Romans 3:132 voices
Their throat - Is noisome and dangerous as an open sepulchre. Observe the progress of evil discourse, proceeding out of the heart, through the throat, tongue, lips, till the whole mouth is filled therewith. The poison of asps - Infectious, deadly backbiting, tale-bearing, evil-speaking, is under (for honey is on) their lips.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament, 1755Evangelical
57:8) is prostituted to the purposes of deception." the poison of asps is under their lips-- (Ps 140:3): that is, "Those lips which should 'drop as an honeycomb,' and 'feed many,' and 'give thanks unto His name' (So 4:11;
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871Reformed