2617. ¹ These hellish pleasures prevailed in the descendants of Jacob, who felt no greater pleasure than that of tormenting the nations, as we also read concerning David, that he thus tormented the children of Ammon, 2 Sam. 12:31, where such practices and similar grinding tortures are meant. But they were hellish, never commanded, nor ever permitted to anyone except to those whose femoral nerve was dislocated, that is, with whom the lower part of the thigh is separated from its higher part, so that the opposite pleasure is in the lower part to that in the higher one.

Therefore, by the dislocated nerve of Jacob this separation, or change into the opposite is meant. Hence it is clear what is meant by the heel being bruised in Gen.

[3:15] by the serpent; also by Jacob's holding the heel of Esau, and his name having the same meaning ² [25:26]. Thus he specifically is meant by the serpent who bruises the heel of the woman's seed. 1748, 16 July.

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