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The Birds of the Air (also referred to as The Fowls of the Air or The Lilies of the Field) is a discourse given by Jesus during his Sermon on the Mount as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament. The discourse makes several references to the natural world: ravens (in Luke), lilies ...
History. Søren Kierkegaard published The Lily of the Field and the Bird of the Air as three Godly discourses, differing from his Upbuilding and Various Discourses, on May 14, 1849. This is one of the four books [1] he published that year. It was first translated by Walter Lowrie in 1940 and then again by Bruce Kirmmse in 2016.
The second meaning implies that Jesus, speaking in the open air, pointed to some birds nearby while speaking these lines. Birds of the sky literally translates as "birds in heaven," but this was a common expression for birds in flight through the air and does not imply the birds were with God. There are several debates over this verse.
Lugh was the primary god representing the red sun and was also known in Welsh as "Coch Rhi Ben", anglicised to "Cock Robin" ( coch meaning red, rhi meaning lord and ben meaning leader – a nod to the belief that souls became birds after death).
In the Gospel of Matthew the parable is as follows: . The Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field; which indeed is smaller than all seeds but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.
Sky burial. Sky burial ( Tibetan: བྱ་གཏོར་, Wylie: bya gtor, lit. "bird-scattered" [ 1]) is a funeral practice in which a human corpse is placed on a mountaintop to decompose while exposed to the elements or to be eaten by scavenging animals, especially carrion birds like vultures and corvids.
Gregory the Great: "Otherwise; The fox is a crafty animal, lying hid in ditches and dens, and when it comes abroad never going in a straight path, but in crooked windings; birds raise themselves in the air. By the foxes then are meant the subtle and deceitful dæmons, by the birds the proud dæmons; as though He had said; Deceitful and proud ...
Air sac. Air sacs are spaces within an organism where there is the constant presence of air. Among modern animals, birds possess the most air sacs (9–11), with their extinct dinosaurian relatives showing a great increase [clarification needed] in the pneumatization (presence of air) in their bones. [ 1] Birds use air sacs for respiration as ...