As soon as the People were wounded, their Blood was inflamed, and according to some _Jewish_ Authors, they were _scorch’d with insatiable Thirst_. Of the _Hebrew_ word _Saraph_, the _Greeks_, by changing the Position and Order of Letters, have borrowed the Name _Prester_, which is a kind of fiery venemous Serpent, called also _Dipsas_ and _Causon_, whose Wound is accompanied with a most vehement Heat and Thirst, and generally incurable, as some have formerly said. They may be properly called _Fiery_, as their Colour was glowing, a proper Representative of Fire. In the _West-Indies_ are _Adders, red as Blood_, about seven or eight Foot long, and appear by Night as a _burning Coal_[354]. Footnote 354: _Atl. America_, 179. 2. They might be called _Fiery_ also, from a _moral Consideration_; for, that raging Heat in the Body might represent the outragious Disorders of the Mind, flowing from conscious Guilt, neither of which were the Attendants of an original State. Hence, perhaps, it is that Satan’s _Temptations_ are styled _fiery Darts_, because when complied with, they kindle a Fire in the Conscience, a Prognostick, and Taste of the Unquenchable[355]. Footnote 355: _Eph._ vi 16. βελη—πεπυρωμηνα. And indeed, what are all uneasy Sensations, but the Venom of the old Serpent? thence, that long Train of Complaints and Groans. _Remember from whence thou art fallen_, is the Language of every Calamity, but no calamitous Impression so terrible, as that which alarms the Mind about the awful Futurity. Of Sin it is said, that at last, _it will bite like a Serpent, and sting like an Adder_[356]. Footnote 356: _Prov._ xxiii. 32. What fill’d _Adam_’s Mind with Horror and Consternation? What made him run with wild Confusion among the Trees to hide himself? What was he afraid of? He, who was Lord of the Earth, and Image of the Almighty? Was not he in Paradise, the Garden of God; whence then this sudden and mighty Panick? What produced this great and astonishing Change in one who had a friendly Intercourse with God a little before? Oh! ’twas Guilt, Guilt, Guilt. A Consciousness of his iniquitous Compliance with the Serpent. What were those anxious disquieting Thoughts that kindled the Fire in his Breast, but the venemous, fiery Darts of Satan? _JUDAS_ is another Example; a Person highly honour’d by Christ, who made him his Ambassador Extraordinary to the House of _Israel_, and Treasurer of his House and Privy Counsellor, on a sudden falls into Extremity of Anguish; and why? Guilt, Guilt ... struck with Horror of Mind for the Effusion of innocent Blood; was arraign’d, and sentenced by his own Conscience, and became his own Executioner: His Guilt was the Wound that bled within, and what Words can describe the Agony that made that wretched Man throw himself into Hell for Ease. SECT. IV.