Please tell us about that word you found for snake that can be confused for Nazarene.
Like I said a few times about the ancient age describing things as they best can for that period using emulations to describe their appearances. On the case of the staff turning into a snake one could be describing an archaic age Egyptian battery by placing two different metals like copper & iron in acid creating a serpantine charge aka a snake out of an electrified rod swallowing a serpent. Also electrifying the ark can explain descriptions of people burning (electrocuted) to death through touching it. Remember the Polarity possible by the
2 Cherubs but also thatvthe Ark carried the HaShevet (they placed back the staff in the ark)-Numbers /Korach 17:25 "Vayomer Adonay el-Moshe HASHEV"
So the copper serpent to protect from snake bites could be an archaic age zapper or heat reflective application DEHYDRATING THE SNAKES historically OR making those bitten sweat out toxins? Then 2nd later to come prophecy aka repeat history being the use of tasers or laser weapons or symbol of medicine cures depending if you see it removing snakes or healing from bites?
And 3rd layer of prophecy- the emulated spiritual as being described in my commentary on the missguided use of the false prophet on a tree.
Be open to many possibilities and you won't be caught flat footed when the answer appears.
Sorry didn't see this till now there were a group of Christian Gnostics called the Naaseenes which could easily be confused for Nazarenes... Anyways the word could have possibly come from the Greek word Nassseni or possibly the Hebrew Nahash for snake... This group was a Christian gnostic sect around 100 AD... So the timeline is interesting... This group or sect was known From the writings of Hippolytus of Rome and their beliefs regarding snakes could have been easily incorporated into New Testament writings as they claimed to have been taught their doctrines from a woman named Mariamne a disciple of James the Just... It could be very interesting to dig into this a little further...One could see how this could increase confusion if Rome almagamated all these groups together and their beliefs and doctrines...
That sect had sexual practices liken to descriptions in the gnostic texts of Judas and NT and Jesus hometown of Capernaum.
This would explain the sexual deviancy shown in Judas accts and even the NT.
Also fits the other accts like the followers of John claim of an evil woman's evil book burned, while Q the central source all apostles books are formed from was
known to be burned and missing.
I wonder if Apollonias (Pol) still had a copy in his vast cultural library to form his supposed 2/3 the NT from.
Would make prophecy very accurate and intuitive to use the term Serpent for the false prophet(s) as the word in it's greek term for serpent matches the groups title for the greek named false prophet's cult.
To perfect and fitting.[/ Concidering how we discussed how Rome converged different characters from myths and actual people who lived into one converged person and the fact that there were other Appolonius characters such as Appolonius of Rhodes who was in charge of the vast library in Alexandria EGYPT and he had Latin students I could see how these Serpentine philosophies could grow to swallow the whole world in the mythology and scope... Appolonius or A Paul( Apple) could have spread their FRUIT( teachings) far and wide certainly in the Roman Empire and then beyond...