1. 蛇 (創世紀 3:1-5)
1) 在上主天主所造的一切野獸中,蛇是最狡猾的。蛇對女人說:「天主真說了,你們不可吃樂園中任何樹上的果子嗎?」
女人對蛇說:「樂園中樹上的果子,我們都可吃;隻有樂園中央那棵樹上的果子,天主說過,你們不可以吃,也不可摸,免得死亡。」
蛇對女人說:「你們決不會死! 因為天主知道,你們那天吃了這果子,你們的眼就會開了,將如同天主一樣知道善惡。」
2) 《出埃及記》中,上帝讓摩西手中的棍杖變成蛇,又從蛇變棍杖。(4:2)
但是,埃及人的智者和術士用他們的巫術作了同樣的事。他們每人扔下自己的棍杖,也都變成了蛇,但亞郎的棍杖卻吞了他們的棍杖。(7: 12)
過了四十天,諾厄開了在方舟上做的窗戶,放了一隻烏鴉;烏鴉飛去又飛回,直到地上的水都幹了。
At the end of forty days Noah opened the window of the ark that he had made 7 and sent out the raven; and it went to and fro until the waters were dried up from the earth.
傍晚時,那隻鴿子飛回他那裏,看,嘴裏銜著一根綠的橄欖樹枝;諾厄於是知道,水已由地上退去。
the dove came back to him in the evening, and there in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf
鴿子在新約,福音書裏聖靈的體現。
上主對他說:「你給我拿來一隻三歲的母牛,一隻三歲的母山羊,一隻三歲的公綿羊,一隻斑鳩和一隻雛鴿。」
He said to him, “Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon.”
他將來為人,像頭野驢;他要反對眾人,眾人也要反對他;他要衝著自己的眾兄弟支搭帳幕。」
He shall be a wild ass of a man, with his hand against everyone, and everyone's hand against him; and he shall live at odds with all his kin.”