Bible Dictionary: The Dog: Nothing Holy to be Given To

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Matthew 7:6
Give not that which is holy to the dogs, neither cast you your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Matthew 15:26
But he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it to dogs.
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Library

The Creaturely Man.
... Not as tho the Holy Spirit had nothing to do ... Not that we would be foolish on that
ground to call the dog half human; for these higher animal properties ...
/.../kuyper/the work of the holy spirit/vii the creaturely man.htm

Of Passages from the Holy Scriptures, and from the Apocrypha ...
... made by the authority of a general holy synod, went ... like a piece of offal thrown
to a barking dog. ... been a general Council, though it lacked nothing as regards ...
/.../calvin/the institutes of the christian religion/of passages from the holy.htm

Perseverance of Saints.
... to his vomit, because he remains a dog, and is not ... Nothing shall enter into the city
that defileth, neither ... Holy Father, keep through thine own name those whom ...
/.../finney/systematic theology/lecture li perseverance of saints.htm

Acts of the Holy Apostle Thomas.
... limbs, among which also one black dog, laying hold ... this filthy intercourse, you become
temples holy and pure ... will be again good-for-nothing, doing unprofitable ...
/.../unknown/acts of the holy apostle thomas/acts of the holy apostle.htm

Loving Advice for Anxious Seekers
... Probably, nothing makes a man seem so much like a maniac ... of the wicket gate, and
keeps the big dog to howl ... The Holy Ghost is given to this end: "He shall teach ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 13 1867/loving advice for anxious seekers.htm

The Ascension of Christ
... openly in divers places, and yet not a dog dare move ... There is nothing in heaven,
or earth, or hell, that can ... But to some persons the Holy Spirit is given more ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the ascension of christ.htm

Martyrdom of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew.
... Thou livest and reignest in unity of the Holy Spirit for ... And when ye behold Him,
fear nothing; but when I ... as soot; his face sharp like a dog's, thin-cheeked ...
/.../martyrdom of the holy and.htm

Of the Fourth Consideration of the Sacred, Holy Stigmata
... or shrieking piteously, or at times by barking like a dog. ... the care of the Order,
I have nothing to do ... in his power to conceal the sacred, holy stigmata, for ...
/.../the little flowers of st francis of assisi/of the fourth consideration of.htm

Oration on the Holy Lights.
... is the dwelling of all the Blissful, is nothing else than ... The Holy Ghost is truly
Spirit, coming forth from the ... for mercy and crumbs, the food of a dog that is ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxxix oration on the.htm

Vile Ingratitude!
... Banyan that we wished we had been a dog or a ... that he might spend his hatred on, but
nothing which could ... given us the jewel in our forehead"a holy courage for ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/vile ingratitude.htm