Can you identify the "dogs" or "swine"?

[Earth Wind and Fire]

We have to use them to protect our country and our interests!

good then its aggreed, the USA agrees to NOT protect Iseral in any way....not financially & not militarially.

 

[Yeshua1]

good then its aggreed, the USA agrees to NOT protect Iseral in any way....not financially & not militarially.

Except it is in our best interest to support Israel, as they are the only stable nation in mid East, and they have out back against the Islamic terrorists!

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

Except it is in our best interest to support Israel, as they are the only stable nation in mid East, and they have out back against the Islamic terrorists!

Let them all accept Jesus as Lord first... then God will protect them.

 

[Yeshua1]

Let them all accept Jesus as Lord first... then God will protect them.

God has been using us to do that!

 

[Earth Wind and Fire]

God has been using us to do that!

That’s a crock

 

[Yeshua1]

That’s a crock

God said that woever is with them is on the side of God, right?

 

[Covenanter]

God said that woever is with them is on the side of God, right?

Wrong - unless you can quote Scripture.
Read Habakkuk - when he prayed concerning the evil of Israel in his day, the answer was -

5 ‘Look at the nations and watch –
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own. ​

 

[Yeshua1]

Wrong - unless you can quote Scripture.
Read Habakkuk - when he prayed concerning the evil of Israel in his day, the answer was -

5 ‘Look at the nations and watch –
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told.
6 I am raising up the Babylonians,
that ruthless and impetuous people,
who sweep across the whole earth
to seize dwellings not their own. ​

God raised up other nations to punish israel, but he alsojudged them for their wicked ways afflicting israel, and did not stop being God over them in the OT times.

 

[1689Dave]

Mat 7:6 KJV Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

John Wycliffe
"The church (Roman Catholic Church) bitterly opposed it: "By this translation, the Scriptures have become vulgar, and they are more available to lay, and even to women who can read, than they were to learned scholars, who have a high intelligence. So the pearl of the gospel is scattered and trodden underfoot by swine.""

The quote above is the only reference I have found where anyone identifies the subjects of Mat 7:6.

The RCC taking issue with John Wycliffe's effort to translate the Bible into English.

Can you, or anyone to your knowledge, identify the "dogs" or the "swine" in your midst?

St. Augustine applies this verse to the study and teaching of Scripture and spiritual matters:


By pearls … are meant whatever spiritual things we ought to set a high value upon, both because they lie hid in a secret place, as it were brought up out of the deep, and are found in wrappings of allegory, as it were in shells that have been opened.

He goes on to say that the “holy” understanding should not be offered to those spiritually unprepared to receive it, either assailants of the truth (dogs) or despisers of it (swine), both of which animals, he notes, are “unclean” (De sermone Domini in Monte, 2.20.68-69).


Jeffrey, D. L. (1992). In A Dictionary of biblical tradition in English literature. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Eerdmans.