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How is Matt 7:6 --Swine Vs Pearls --explained?
The image in Matt 7:6 is stated twice in Hebrew parallelism, viz:
Do not give what is holy to the dogs
Do not cast your pearls before swine
That is, in both cases, the animals (both being unclean!) ...
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How is Matt 7:6 --Swine Vs Pearls --explained?
The notion that a fighter bull is sensitive to the red-colored flag waved at it is an urban myth. The poor beast is goaded into charging at the person waving - whatever is waved. It could equally be a ...
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The Son of Jonah / John: Literally, or Metaphorically?
English
Greek
Strong
Origin
Ocurrences
John
Ἰωάννης
2491
Hebrew - Yochanan (יוֹחָנָן)
135
Jonah
Ἰωνᾶς
2495
Hebrew - Yonah (יוֹנָה)
9
Barjona
Βαριωνᾶς
920
Aramaic - bar (בַּר) and Yonah (יוֹנָה)
1
...
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What ancient practice did Jesus have in mind , when he said of salt being thrown out as waste?
There is no ancient practice of throwing out salt, Quite the opposite, salt is valuable. The ancient practice referred to in the parable is the Jewish practice of salting freshly slaughtered meat to ...
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Does Hosea 14:5-7 echo the themes of Song of Songs?
The answer depends largely on whether or not Hosea interpreted the Song of Songs to be an allegory of God's love for Israel. Jews have often understood it that way. But we also have to wonder whether ...
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How is Matt 7:6 --Swine Vs Pearls --explained?
Matthew 7:6 NIV
Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs. If you do, they may trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.
Matthew 7:6 mentions two ...
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How is Matt 7:6 --Swine Vs Pearls --explained?
Since NT teaches that the truth must be shared as widely as possible, even among the heathen, the teaching of pearls before swine probably has a meaning particular to the time and place in which it ...
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What is the allegorical sense of "deep" in Lk. 5:4 "Launch out into the deep."?
St. Ambrose thinks the "duc in altum" ("launch out into the deep") means to launch
in profundum disputationum
John Henry Newman transl. of St. Thomas's Catena Aurea: "into ...
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What is the allegorical sense of "deep" in Lk. 5:4 "Launch out into the deep."?
The operative noun/adjective here is βάθος (bathos) [from which we get our English "bathosphere"] occurs just eight times in the NT which could be classified as follows:
metaphorically ...
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Does the mention of Sheep Gate in John 5:2 give a lead to explanation for the allegory of Camel and Eye of the Needle?
Does the mention of Sheep Gate in John 5:2 give a lead to explanation for the allegory of Camel and Eye of the Needle?
Summary, John 5:2 and Matthew 19:24 are unrelated. John 5:2 does not lead to ...
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The Son of Jonah / John: Literally, or Metaphorically?
There are two questions here, one about the text of John 1;42, and one about the connection, if any, between Peter's father's name and the OT prophet in Matt 16:4 & 17. Let us take these one at a ...
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(Song of Songs 2:7) Hebrew Question about Gender of Subject and Object
Sometimes the Hebrew bible flips from female plural to male plural as male plural is seen as more abstract. Another example of this is "וּמִ֨תּוֹכָ֔הּ דְּמ֖וּת אַרְבַּ֣ע חַיּ֑וֹת וְזֶה֙ ...
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What are good contextual clues that a passage is meant to be read as hyperbole?
Q: What are the good contextual clues that the passage is meant to be read as hyperbole?*
1. People speak Hyperbole, and so does Jesus
Hyperbole is one of the familiar figures of speech people use... ...
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Are there practical rules for distinguishing between literal and nonliteral expressions?
I don't know if there is a book that sets out rules for the metaphors and similes in God's word. But, there ought to be as very many people believe the false mantra that everything in the Bible is ...
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του πνεύμα εκ του πνεύματος The spirit of the Spirit? Gal 6:8
You're putting the two prepositional phrases together that belong in separate clauses. Paul positioned then adjacent for emphasis. You need the context in the sentence.
Note: harvest = reap
ὅτι ὁ ...
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Does Hosea 14:5-7 echo the themes of Song of Songs?
Given that Hosea wrote his prophecy long after king Solomon had died, and that what is sometimes called "The Song of Solomon" (Song of Songs) is poetic literature, it's questionable whether ...
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του πνεύμα εκ του πνεύματος The spirit of the Spirit? Gal 6:8
First, in Gen 6:8 the NOUN "harvest" does not appear. We only have the verb forms "reap", θερίζω, in a future tense, θερίσει ("will reap").
So, here is my very literal ...
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What ancient practice did Jesus have in mind , when he said of salt being thrown out as waste?
To me it seems clear there are different distinct usages of “salt” that those listening to Jesus at the time would understand. The most pure and valuable salt was “savory”; fit for the table, or for ...
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Are there practical rules for distinguishing between literal and nonliteral expressions?
What [Book] contains rules which enable a person to distinguish between literal and nonliteral Biblical expressions?
The Guide for the Perplexed written by Maimonides (Rambam) & composed 1190 CE ...
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The Son of Jonah / John: Literally, or Metaphorically?
Some thoughts.
Reading John 21:7, I was struck by the rather odd information provided about Peter. On one level, we surmise he desires immediately to get to Jesus on the shore, but that is our ...
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What is the New Jerusalem?
"NEW JERUSALEM" - this phrase appears twice in the Scriptures in the book of Revelation 3:12 and 21:2. John says in 21:2
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, ...
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How does "Sensus Plenior" differ from Allegory, Gnosticism, Kaballah, and Midrash?
Tyconius' Book of Rules (circa 370 AD) is perhaps the first Christian treatment of the discipline necessary to understanding the meaning of analogies presented in Sacred Scripture. This book was ...
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Song of Songs 8:9 - allusion to virginity and promiscuity?
After doing some research I think I have come up with the correct interpretation.
The dialogue in this chapter actually follows a well-known motif of the Song of Songs. The motif is of a young girl ...
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Song of Songs 8:9 - allusion to virginity and promiscuity?
This is how I read the text. Hope you don’t mind me sharing my point of view. Even if it’s not found in a commentary.
What shall we do when she is spoken for seems to be the context. Specifically ...
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