Книга Премудрости Соломона, Глава 16, стих 7. Толкования стиха

Проводя затем параллель между поклонниками идолов и почитателями истиннаго Бога, премудрый показывает, как египтяне по заслугам подвергаются наказаниям от того же, чему прежде кланялись, а евреи за страдания от голода получили небесную пищу; по когда роптали па Бога, то и наказывались упущением змей и спасались от укушения воззрением на змею же.

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE LEVITES AND THE BRONZE SERPENT. ORIGEN: In the meantime, the priestly Levitical order must show the way to the people of God—who are leaving Egypt! It is they, in fact, who teach the people to flee Egypt, which is to say from the errors of the world, and to pass through the immense desert, that is, to pass through various kinds of temptations without being harmed by the serpents, which are the bites of demons, and to avoid the poison of perverse counsel. And if it happens that someone is bitten by a serpent in the desert, they also show him the bronze serpent hanging on the cross. The one who sees it, who believes, that is, in him whom the serpent symbolized, by this very fact will escape the devil’s poison. HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 4.2.