Jiang glosses 'adversary' as a literal name for Satan in the Hebrew Bible and reads the renewed serpent scene as another signal that the poem is still staging an Edenic conflict.
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"...himself, drew him to himself, and said, I see there our adversary, he said. And then he pointed with his finger. So adversary is..."
"Satan literally means adversary in the Hebrew Bible. So again, it's referencing back to the Garden of Eden, and it's saying to us that..."
"...each ran back into the cities scrambling fast and these our adversaries slammed the gates in my lord's face and he remained outside then..."
"...can't have China and the United States sort of be massive adversaries at that point. I mean, the hard thing is our economies are..."
"...been Xi Jinping's loyalists who have been purged by Xi Jinping's adversaries. So there is turmoil at the top of the Chinese military. Now,..."
"...on it, but your ways, you can only vote. extracting from adversaries, but also allies. But I don't think it's limited to Trump. I..."
"now um the united states main adversary is that china um it's really russia because russia is the only country that has the resources..."
"...best general staff in the world. So Britain found a tremendous adversary in Germany, so much so that it took two world wars to..."
"the main adversary to Iran in the Middle East so why would they do that that would be just be insane and honestly they..."
"...self -reflection, if an empire recognized the strategic capabilities of its adversaries, an empire would not decline because an empire would engage in innovation,..."
"...go back 2,000 years, the Jews and the Romans were great adversaries. And so the Romans need to be destroyed. They need to be..."
"...still is the global hegemon and that America has no peer adversary. And that's why we saw the kidnapping of Maduro, President Maduro from..."
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