[God said to the serpent], “I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel” (Gen 3:15, CSB).
Image via Wikimedia Commons This statue of Jesus striking the head of the serpent was put on a man’s tomb in 1705.
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