Definition of "subtil" [subtil]

• Subtle (adjective)

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• "While the serpent in Genesis 3 may be "subtil" or cunning - the Hebrew word is arum - equating this"
• "Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the lord God had made."
• "And therefore they being themselves invisible to us, and capable of working in wayes that our sences cannot discerne; and being Agents of great craft & long experience; tis no wonder that many of their actions, thô never so pollytickly contrived & carried on, should seem irrationall to us: who know so little of their particular inclinations & designes, and the subtil"