The serpent and the chalice is an allegory of healing, medicine. The biblical saying, "Let us turn swords into plowshares" is an allegorical call for peace, for the end of wars. Do you know what a ploughshare is? It is a plowing tool, a ploughshare. In antiquity they used to say, "Riforgiare le spade in aratri" - now you know what they were talking about.

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