Bible Dictionary: The Fox: Crafty

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Greek

258. alopex -- a fox
... Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: alopex Phonetic Spelling:
(al-o'-pakes) Short Definition: a fox Definition: a fox; a fox-like, crafty person. ...
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Luke 13:32
And he said to them, Go you, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures to day and to morrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
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Library

Persecutions of Herod Antipas. (Luke, xiii. , 31. )
... It would not have been in harmony with his character to rebuke them over Herod's
shoulders by calling him a crafty "fox," when the epithet was intended for ...
/.../section 220 persecutions of herod.htm

The Strait Gate. Warned against Herod.
... of sending messengers to warn Jesus under the guise of friendship.] 32 And he said
unto them, Go and say to that fox [ie, say to that crafty, sly fellow. ...
/.../mcgarvey/the four-fold gospel/lxxxix the strait gate warned.htm

Whether any Demons are Naturally Wicked?
... Dei x, 11): "There is a class of demons of crafty nature, pretending that ... some
irrational animals have wicked dispositions by nature: thus the fox is naturally ...
/.../aquinas/summa theologica/whether any demons are naturally.htm

Thanksgiving to God for the Pardon Granted to the Offenders ...
... is devoid of shame. Hate, therefore, this kind of wickedness. The fox also
is crafty, and fraudulent. Emulate not this vice; but ...
/.../chrysostom/on the priesthood/homily xii thanksgiving to god.htm

Herod
... when Jesus was advised to go thence or Herod would kill Him, He at once knew who
had instigated the crafty monition, and sent back his defiance to that fox. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/chadwick/the gospel of st mark/chapter 6 14-29 herod.htm

Some Gospel Truths Opened, According to the Scriptures; Or, the ...
... The works of Fox, Penn, Barclay, and others, with their books of discipline, and ...
and of love.' He meekly commences with"'How long, ye crafty fowlers, will ye ...
/.../the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/some gospel truths opened according.htm

Herod --A Startled Conscience
... half-independent Rajahs, whose dominions march with ours in India; capricious, crafty,
as the epithet which Christ applied to him, 'That fox!' shows; cruel, as ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture d/heroda startled conscience.htm

Christ's Message to Herod
... 'And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I ... communicates to them,
shows that He regarded them as in a plot with that crafty, capricious kinglet ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture e/christs message to herod.htm

Argument. --And Thus Unclean Animals are not to be Reproached ...
... But it holds accused crafty wills. ... [5318] [The moral uses of the animal creation
are recognised in all languages; as when we say of men, a serpent, a fox, a hog ...
/.../novatian/on the jewish meats/chapter iii argument and thus unclean.htm

The Cross as a Social Principle
... And he said unto them, Go and say to that fox, Behold, I cast out demons ... but a clash
of principles, of justice with wrong, of truth with crafty subterfuges, or ...
/.../rauschenbusch/the social principles of jesus/chapter xi the cross as.htm

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