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For him the birds of the air and the lilies of the field represented instructors in "religious joy", an appreciation that "there is a today". For him learning joy was to learn to let go of tomorrow, not in the sense of failing to plan or provide, but in giving one's attention to the tasks of today without knowing what they will have meant. [2]
Humans have the ability to farm, to store food in barns, and to plan for the future. Birds have no such gifts and their lives are ones of hard work for little reward. Despite these greater burdens birds have, they are not anxious about the future. [3] This verse is paralleled in Luke 12:23, but Luke has ravens instead of birds. Harrington notes ...
Chrysostom: "So Christ answers him not so much to what he had said, but to the obvious purpose of his mind.Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests, but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head; as though He had said;" [4]
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas is an apocryphal gospel about the childhood of Jesus.The scholarly consensus dates it to the mid-to-late second century, with the oldest extant fragmentary manuscript dating to the fourth or fifth century, and the earliest complete manuscript being the Codex Sabaiticus from the 11th century.
This is very similar to Matthew 6:26, with lilies and clothes in place of birds and food. The grass of the field of this verse is presumed to be the lilies of Matthew 6:27 , implying that Jesus was speaking of the abundant wild flowers that will fill local fields.
There are also examples of contemporary bird-human communication and symbiosis. In North America, ravens have been known to lead wolves (and native hunters) to prey they otherwise would be unable to consume. [2] [3] In Africa, the greater honeyguide is known to guide humans to beehives in the hope that the hive will be incapacitated and opened ...
The bird shows how Christ turns away from unrepentant sinners and casts them off; but those to whom he turns his face, he makes whole again. Sometimes this moral is used specifically against the Jews to describe how, because the Jews did not believe, Christ turned his face from them and toward the Gentiles, taking away and carrying their sins ...
El cant dels ocells" (Catalan: [əl ˈkan dəlz uˈseʎs], 'The Song of the Birds') is a traditional Catalan Christmas song and lullaby. It tells of nature's joy at learning of the birth of Jesus Christ in a stable in Bethlehem. [1] The song was made famous outside Catalonia by Pablo Casals' instrumental version on the cello. [2]