Bible Dictionary: The Devil: Compared to Fowls

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Matthew 13:4
And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:
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Library

The Covenant of Works
... Sin in Scripture is compared to a menstruous cloth,' Isaiah 30 ... do they tire themselves
in doing the devil's drudgery ... mix with the feathers of other fowls; so God ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/1 the covenant of works.htm

I Would Lay Open Before My God that Nine-And-Twentieth Year of ...
... by name, a great snare of the Devil, and many ... remembered much of the philosophers,
I compared some things ... slay their own soaring imaginations, as fowls of the ...
/.../augustine/the confessions of saint augustine/chapter iii i would lay.htm

Having Heard Faustus, the Most Learned Bishop of the Manichæans ...
... by name Faustus, a great snare of the devil, and in ... do they slay their own pride,
as fowls of the ... visible manifestations of the stars; and I compared them with ...
/.../the confessions and letters of st/chapter iii having heard faustus the.htm

Book Five a Year of Decision. ...
... by name, a great snare of the devil; and many ... own pride"as they do the sacrificial
fowls"nor their ... And I compared this with the doctrines of Mani, who in ...
/.../augustine/confessions and enchiridion/book five a year of.htm

Psalm CIV.
... waves so great that they may be compared to mountains. ... and fowls of the air, but
small fowls are wont ... sublime realms of the heavens, and made devil instead of ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm civ.htm

A Bundle of Myrrh
... living, and kept close from the fowls of heaven ... the small dust of the balance compared
with the ... The devil, like Nebuchadnezzar, heated the furnace seven times ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 10 1864/a bundle of myrrh.htm

Psalm LXXVIII.
... with visible manna, and those same winged fowls; but, "I ... what vice is it more
appropriately compared, than to ... through evil angels." Now that the devil and his ...
/.../augustine/exposition on the book of psalms/psalm lxxviii.htm

The Church.
... moon, so her virtues are as naturally compared to a ... Joshua shall succeed him; and
if the devil break the ... is the tree under whose branches the fowls of heaven ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bunyan/the riches of bunyan/xxi the church.htm

Trust in God --True Wisdom
... Without wisdom, man may be compared to a soil untilled ... all living, and kept close
from the fowls of the ... After hypocrites, the greatest dupes the devil has are ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/trust in godtrue wisdom.htm

Letter cxxiii. To Ageruchia.
... It should be compared with the letters to Furia (LIV ... rather to be called synagogues
of the devil than congregations ... for food, to go back to the fowls which "sow ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/letter cxxiii to ageruchia.htm

Subtopics

Devil

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The Devil: Cast Down to Hell

The Devil: Cast out of Heaven

The Devil: Character of Cowardly

The Devil: Character of Deceitful

The Devil: Character of Fierce and Cruel

The Devil: Character of Malignant

The Devil: Character of Powerful

The Devil: Character of Presumptuous

The Devil: Character of Proud