Matthew 23:37
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you that kill the prophets, and stone them which are sent to you, how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
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Luke 13:34
O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which kill the prophets, and stone them that are sent to you; how often would I have gathered your children together, as a hen does gather her brood under her wings, and you would not!
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2581. Chen -- "favor," a contemporary of Zerubbabel
... Hen. The same as chen; grace; Chen, a figurative name for an Israelite -- Hen.
see HEBREW chen. 2580, 2581. Chen. 2582 . Strong's Numbers.
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Letter Xlvi. Paula and Eustochium to Marcella.
... would I have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her ... be punished;
if the temple was overthrown, it was that its figurative sacrifices might ...
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Jesus' Last Public Discourse. Denunciation of Scribes and ...
... [Here again the literal peeps through the figurative: a pure ... how often would I have
gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under ...
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Hid in Light
... softened into the likeness of the maternal instinct which leads a hen to gather ... The
'face' of God is so strongly figurative an expression that its metaphorical ...
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All who Walk According to Truth are Children of God.
... that He calls us chickens the Scripture testifies: "As a hen gathereth her ... will gather
the lambs with His arm," [1066] "using the figurative appellation of ...
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Of the Pharisees who Sit in the Seat of Moses, and Enjoin Things ...
... thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather ...
be taken to have been uttered by Him in a mystical and figurative sense: for ...
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Excursus B. On 22 (Note 3).
... ho on ton me onta ek tou ontos e ton onta; and hen to ageneton ... Bull considers
declaratory of a going forth, proeleusis, or figurative birth from the Father, at ...
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On the Morrow of the Transfiguration
... dead, and to waken the other sleepers - or was it only a figurative expression for ...
had received the Christ, He would have gathered them as a hen her chickens ...
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Difficulties and Objections
... light on numerous other passages which, if we ignore their figurative character
and ... would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her ...
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Ephesians iv. 7-Apr
... The hen pneuma is the Holy Spirit, the spirit of the corpus mysticum; comp. ... here,
but of a ship abandoned to the breakers, on which figurative expression of ...
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Seances Historiques De Geneve --The National Church.
... Christians of the same thing, and solemn inferences from the figurative expressions
of ... would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her ...
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Hen

Hen: Figurative

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