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"Paul R. Monfils" <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 26 May 1999 21:18:01 EDT
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Psalm 58:8  "like the slug which melts as it moves" (some translations say
"snail" rather than slug)
 
Acts 16:14 - an indirect reference to mollusks - "Lydia, who was a dealer in
purple goods" - these goods of course would be cloth dyed with the purple
secretions of Murex brandaris and other Mediterranean muricids.
 
Paul M.

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