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 which they weave: the deadly hurt which they inflict on all who receive them, is denoted by "he who eateth of their eggs dieth, and the one that is crushed breaketh out into a viper." Thus it is that all spiritual life, by these deadly evils and treacherous falsities, is made to wither and decay; and sad indeed is the result—he who eateth of their eggs dieth!

Evil love, with its treachery and deceit, is compared to a spider and the surrounding web: the evil love is the spider, and falsities are the retiform threads proceeding therefrom, as the web from the body of the spider, in which the unwary of our race, like flies, are entangled, caught, and devoured. Surely this is a true description of the wicked: "They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web," There is poison in the egg—there is treachery in the web.

Fly, reader! O fly from all evil of life, as from a deadly poison, and thou shalt never be entangled in the web of falsehood. The Lord Jesus will give thee "power to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt thee."

OSES, who kept the flock of Jethro, his father-in-law, led them to the back side of the desert, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. Here it was that the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in