Bible Dictionary: Birds: Appointed for Food

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Genesis 9:2,3
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
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Deuteronomy 14:11-20
Of all clean birds you shall eat.
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Consider the Lilies of the Field
... came, with its sunshine, flowers, and birds, rejoiced that ... fruitful seasons, filling
their hearts with food and gladness ... For he had appointed a day in which he ...
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He Replies to the Cavil that the one who is Born must be of one ...
... appointments are subject to Him who appointed them, and ... had been previously born
of mother birds, but that ... Again whence came that heavenly food which for forty ...
/.../cassian/the seven books of john cassian /chapter iii he replies to.htm

Joseph's Eagerness to Help Others
... And the captain of the guard appointed Joseph to wait on them ... the upper basket there
were all kinds of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating ...
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The Phoenix
... No food is appointed for her in our world, nor does any one make ... [2062] She is not,
however, slow, as birds which through the greatness of their body have ...
/.../lactantius/of the manner in which the persecutors died/the phoenix.htm

Psalm CIV.
... Sparrows are birds indeed, and fowls of the air, but small fowls are wont to ... art
not earth, thou art not devoured by the serpent, whose appointed food is earth ...
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Love is the Touchstone by which the Reality of Truth is Perceived. ...
... by My blessing the multitude was fed with the choicest food. ... be in the service to
which I have appointed them, and ... in his sling to shoot at the birds seated on ...
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Of Saint Francis
... element of the air which he had appointed for you ... which brothers, after the fashion
of the birds, possessing nothing ... folk of this place give thee food alway so ...
/.../wells/bible stories and religious classics/of saint francis.htm

Of the Ark and the Deluge, and that we Cannot Agree with those who ...
... live submerged in it, or the sea-birds that swim ... might have enabled them to do without
food at all ... the clean and unclean together, until the appointed end, that ...
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On Helping the Poor.
... flesh for the wild beasts, seeds for the birds, and suitable ... be fuel for the fire,
and not food for the ... And this method is plainly appointed by the law, [2957 ...
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Concerning Earth and Its Products.
... of man: but of them some are for food, such as ... for enjoyment, such as apes, and among
birds, jays and ... rose up against him whom the Creator had appointed to be ...
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