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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 Dictionary,
edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)
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Snake [Hieroglyphically]