Insects: Gnat

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Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.
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The Doxology
... all these things, from the tiniest insects in the water-drop, to the most vast star ...
Is not, not merely sun and stars, but even the meanest gnat which hums in ...
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Jesus' Last Public Discourse. Denunciation of Scribes and ...
... such as were applied to the ulcers of cattle produced from the bites, grubs, etc.,
of insects.] 24 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/cx jesus last public discourse.htm

Life.
... sea, or are wafted by the winds, and grow; and after them come insects; then birds ...
The Lord shall rejoice in His works, even to the tiniest gnat that dances in ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/westminster sermons/sermon xvii life.htm

Death.
... of animals which roam among them, and the millions of millions of insects which
buzz ... to prove a pet theory of its own, it will strain at any gnat, and swallow ...
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The Passage Quoted Adversely by Heretics, Namely, "The Son Can do ...
... except nothing, so that one blasphemer has even said: "He cannot make even a gnat,"
[2369] mocking ... [2369] As a matter of fact, gnats and insects generally are ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter iv the passage quoted.htm

The Sea of Glass
... when leaves are budding, flowers blossoming, birds building, and countless insects
springing up to ... on round you now in every leaf, and every gnat which dances ...
/.../kingsley/the good news of god/sermon xxxiv the sea of.htm

The Life of Sir Thomas Browne.
... To this ambition, perhaps, we owe the Frogs of Homer, the Gnat and the ... Then follow
"Answers to certain queries about fishes, birds, and insects;" and "A letter ...
//christianbookshelf.org/browne/christian morals/the life of sir thomas.htm

The Creation of Luminous Bodies.
... This pretended science is a true spider's web; if a gnat or a fly, or some ... weak and
slight in themselves, often by the help of the smallest insects and of the ...
/.../basil/basil letters and select works/homily vi the creation of.htm

The Northern Mountains
... the cracked bark of the trees, in the earth undermined by hymenopterous insects,
life stirs ... long, blue and gray, and of a shape something between a gnat and a ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter xi the northern mountains.htm

Faustus Willing to Believe not Only that the Jewish but that all ...
... flower in every thorn, and food in every plant, and honey in every insect, although
we would not feed on insects or on ... Ye strain out a gnat and swallow a camel ...
/.../faustus willing to believe not.htm

Subtopics

Insects: Clean and Unclean (Ceremonially Speaking)

Insects: Created by God

Insects: Divided Into: Clean and Fit for Food

Insects: Divided Into: Unclean and Abominable