Pearl: Figurative
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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.
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Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of Matthew
... 10. The Pearl of the Gospel in Relation to the Old Testament. 11. ... 8. The Leaven
Figurative Like the Water Spoken of by Jesus to the Woman of Samaria. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/origen/origens commentary on the gospel of matthew/

Clement of Alexandria.
... Fear of God, necessary, 354. Figurative teaching of Scripture and philosophy, 450.
Filthy speaking and acts, reproved, 250. ... Mustard Seed, 578. Pearl, 578. ...
/.../clement/who is the rich man that shall be saved/clement of alexandria.htm

Whether There Can be any Suitable Cause for the Sacraments of the ...
... The figurative reason is evident. ... He is also rejected if he had "a pearl in his eye,"
ie if he presumes in his own estimation that he is clothed in the white ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether there can be any 2.htm

Apocryphal Traditions.
... esteem sacred coin higher than common coin, and highest of all the one precious
pearl of the gospel ... This is a strongly figurative description of the millennium. ...
/.../history of the christian church volume i/section 18 apocryphal traditions.htm

The Potter and the Clay
... exerted in forming a casket into which so invaluable a pearl was in ... or being born
again, or born from above." These are not barely figurative expressions, or ...
/.../whitefield/selected sermons of george whitefield/the potter and the clay.htm

Jesus at the Well of Sychar
... She had come - like so many of us, who find the pearl in the field ... but living water.'
In the Old Testament a perennial spring had, in figurative language, been ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter viii jesus at the.htm

Oration on the Holy Lights.
... 1. The figurative Baptism of Israel by Moses in the cloud and in the Sea ... lives in
the water, whereas Christ is called the Lamb, [3985] and the Pearl, [3986] and ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/oration xxxix oration on the.htm

The Apocalypse.
... as a fit type and forerunner of Antichrist, but only in the figurative sense in ... the
ultimate issue when they shall pass through the gates of pearl never more ...
/.../schaff/history of the christian church volume i/section 101 the apocalypse.htm

From the Latin Translation of Cassiodorus.
... For as the pearl, produced in flesh and the oyster-shell and moisture ... is supplied,
and eikotos omitted in the clause, Paul using appropriate figurative language ...
/.../who is the rich man that shall be saved/i from the latin translation of.htm

Of the Incapacity of an Unregenerate Person for Relishing the ...
... and prophetical book naturally leads us to consider these merely as figurative phrases,
which ... of its streets is all of pure gold, its gates are pearl, and its ...
/.../practical discourses on regeneration/discourse v of the incapacity.htm

Resources
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