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"Throwing Stones" is a song by the Grateful Dead. It appears on their 1987 album In the Dark. [1] It was also released as a single, with a B-side of "When Push Comes to Shove". [2] The song is based loosely on the nursery rhyme Ring Around the Rosie. The song repeatedly mentions the line Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!.
Further, Didymus the Blind (c. 313–398) states that "We find in certain gospels" an episode in which a woman was accused of a sin, and was about to be stoned, but Jesus intervened "and said to those who were about to cast stones, 'He who has not sinned, let him take a stone and throw it. If anyone is conscious in himself not to have sinned ...
In the King James Version of the Bible the text reads: Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone? The World English Bible translates the passage as: Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? The Novum Testamentum Graece text is:
Shimei throwing stones at David outside of Bahurim For young students of Talmud, see Bahur . Bahurim (etymology uncertain [ 1 ] ) was a village mentioned in the Hebrew Bible east of Jerusalem , on the road to the Jordan valley , close to the Mount of Olives .
In Aerosmith's 1994 song "Eat the Rich" they say "But there's one good thing that happens when you toss your pearls to swine." The pig-based Pokémon Spoink and Grumpig may be inspired by the idea of "casting pearls before swine". Spoink and Grumpig appear to use the pearls of wisdom to enhance their psychic powers.
Matthew 4:6 is the sixth verse of the fourth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament. Jesus has just rebuffed "the tempter's" first temptation; in this verse, the devil presents Jesus with a second temptation while they are standing on the pinnacle of the temple in the "holy city" ().
The song's title refers to John of Patmos in his role as the author of the Book of Revelation. A portion of that book focuses on the opening of seven seals and the resulting apocalyptic events . In its various versions, the song quotes several passages from the Bible in the tradition of American spirituals .
Rolling Stone ranked it 45th in its countdown of the band's top 100 songs, praising Richards' vocals and "gospel reverie." [ 4 ] Classic Rock History critic Matthew Pollard rated it as the Rolling Stones' 6th best deep cut, noting that "It starts as a tinkling acoustic composition before shifting into an almost gospel-like intensity."