Isaiah 11:8 - Exposition
The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp ; rather, by the hole— near it. The "asp" is probably the Coluber Naje of Egypt, whose bite is very deadly. The cockatrice den. The "cockatrice" is another deadly serpent, perhaps the Daboia xanthina (Tristram, 'Natural Hist. of the Bible').
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