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Rh Enmity, and between thine and her seed; Her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise his heel."
 * So spake this oracle, then verified

When Jesus, son of Mary, second Eve, Saw Satan fall like lightning down from heaven, Prince of the air; then, rising from his grave, Spoiled Principalities and Powers, triumphed In open shew, and, with ascension bright, Captivity led captive through the air, The realm itself of Satan, long usurped, Whom he shall tread at last under our feet; Even he who now foretold his fatal bruise, And to the Woman thus his sentence turned:
 * "Thy sorrow I will greatly multiply

By thy conception; children thou shalt bring In sorrow forth; and to thy husband's will Thine shall submit; he over thee shall rule."
 * On Adam last thus judgment he pronounced:

"Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, And eaten of the tree, concerning which I charged thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat thereof, Cursed is the ground for thy sake; thou in sorrow Shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life; Thorns also and thistles it shall bring thee forth, Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt then eat bread,