Luke 10:19

I give Read, I have given, with א, B, C, L, &c.

power Rather, the authority.

to tread on serpents and scorpions Compare Mark 16:17-18. So far as the promise was literal,the only fact of the kind referred to in the

N. T. is Acts 28:3-5. In legend we have the story of St John saved from poison, which is represented in Christian art as a viper escaping from the cup (Jameson, Sacred and Legendary Art,I. 159). But it may be doubted whether the meaning was not predominantly spiritual as in Genesis 3:15; Romans 16:20; Psalms 91:13; Isaiah 11:8.

nothing shall by any means hurt you Romans 8:28; Romans 8:39.