"The serpent was then a beast that walked vertically like all the others and it was condemned to crawl on its belly in the dust, to be despised and killed by man. Furthermore, having been an instrument in the hands of Lucifer, it became the symbol of fraud and represents the Devil. (Joseph Franklin Rutherford)"
January 1, 1970
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