Transcription: There's one character in the creation story that always has gotten a bad press and that's the serpent. I think it's unfair. Now people across the ages have said the serpent was a figure of evil, even a figure of Satan, but that's not what the story says. No, the story says that the serpent was the wisest creature in the garden. Obviously wiser than the human beings. Now John Holbert in his commentary says that there is a play on words in the Hebrew here between the people being naked and the serpent being wise. He says in English it might say that the people were nude and the serpent was shrew ...
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