rickclayfan
Puritan Board Freshman
What poem is Owen referring to?
"There is yet some fragments from an ancient poet, come down to us via Epiphanius, who expresses the matter most eloquently. Says he, 'O serpent! Source and font of destruction! Father of a treasure house of all evils, and of the delusions of blinded ignorance! Your food is the sighs and tears of mankind, and you employ the strong right arms of men to slay their own brothers! Stirring up unquenchable hatred between them, you it was who caused Cain to be the first to baptize anger with blood; you it was who caused the first of all men to fall from a heavenly state to earthly depths!'"
Biblical Theology, 188.
"There is yet some fragments from an ancient poet, come down to us via Epiphanius, who expresses the matter most eloquently. Says he, 'O serpent! Source and font of destruction! Father of a treasure house of all evils, and of the delusions of blinded ignorance! Your food is the sighs and tears of mankind, and you employ the strong right arms of men to slay their own brothers! Stirring up unquenchable hatred between them, you it was who caused Cain to be the first to baptize anger with blood; you it was who caused the first of all men to fall from a heavenly state to earthly depths!'"
Biblical Theology, 188.