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In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. The New International Version translates the passage as: I am sending you out like sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
He sends them as sheep among wolves, which brings to mind the messianic time envisioned at Isaiah 11:6, which says that the 'wolf shall dwell with the lamb'. [3] Referring to them as sheep also highlights the danger they will face in their mission. [ 4 ]
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd. The New International Version translates the passage as: When he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
The fable is told very briefly by Aesop in Plutarch's The Banquet of the Seven Sages: "A wolf seeing some shepherds in a shelter eating a sheep, came near to them and said, 'What an uproar you would make if I were doing that!'" [1] Jean de la Fontaine based a long fable on the theme in which the wolf is close to repentance for its violent life until it comes upon the feasting shepherds and ...
Wolves were regarded as greedy and malevolent predators who were a threat to the innocent, and such wolf metaphors are also found in several other parts of the Bible. Schweizer feels this metaphor may be linked to the traditional description of the prophets being clad in skins. [4] It is an open question who, if anyone, this verse is directed ...
The shepherd was fooled by the disguise. When night fell, the shepherd shut up the wolf in the fold with the rest of the sheep and as the fence was placed across the entrance, the sheepfold was securely closed off. But when the shepherd wanted a sheep for his supper, he took his knife and killed the wolf. [4]
The first class, the beasts, in the Biblical parlance, includes all large, walking animals, with the exception of the amphibia, such small animals as moles, mice and the like, [4] and humans as they were not classified as animals. Beasts are divided into cattle, or domesticated (behemoth in the strict sense), and beasts of the field, i.e. wild ...
The Parable of the Tree and its Fruits is a parable of Jesus which appears in two similar passages in the New Testament, in the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew's Gospel and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke's Gospel.