And the liver is the antagonist of the lung, for it raises up a fire from it towards the heart, and were it not that the wings of the lung blow upon it, it would burn up the heart, [Var. and the fire of the heart would burn up the whole body].
The ‘entrails’lxiSee BT Ḥullin 13a is livyatan (Leviathan), corresponding to the impure fat, and upon it is stated:lxiiBT Berakhot 33a ‘Even if a snake is wound around his ankle, he should not interrupt his prayer, but for a scorpion, he interrupts’.
A serpent (saraph) is the gall bladder – the denouncer of the lung, because the bile is the burning (se-reiphah) of the whole body.