The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his
hand.
ACT 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his
hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom,
though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.
ACT 28:5 And he shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no harm.
ACT 28:6 Howbeit they looked when he should have swollen, or fallen
down dead suddenly: but after they had looked a great while, and saw no
harm come to him, they changed their minds, and said that he was a god.
ACT 28:7 In the same quarters were possessions of the chief man of the
island, whose name was Publius; who received us, and lodged us three
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