By Robert Lazu Kmita, Remnant Columnist, The Remnant, September 27, 2023
There are Dragons.
Saint Augustine’s Interpretation of the Bible and the Traps of Evolutionistic Historiography
The Holy Scripture and the Beast
From the entire Bible, especially the Book of Revelation, is the one that acquaints us with the figure of the dragon (Gr. δράκων), while also clearly suggesting the necessity of a challenging symbolic-spiritual exegesis of this malevolent figure in the visions of Saint Apostle John. The inexhaustible richness of the Hole Scripture contains many other references to the monstrous beings described in great epics, both older and more recent, such as Beowulf and The Lord of the Rings.
Like in the Book of Revelation, in some biblical texts, the dragon is a creature that must be understood allegorically. An explicit example of this is found in the book of the great prophet Ezekiel, where God Himself says, “I am against Pharaoh, the great dragon that lies in the midst of his rivers” (Ez. 29:3). As we can see, a historical figure that repeatedly appears in the trials of the Jewish people, the ruler of Egypt, Pharaoh, is identified with the terrible being. ….
