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In addition to the above, according to biblical law, clay vessels that come in contact with animal remains become impure and cannot return to their former purity, therefore they must be broken: If one of them falls into a clay pot, everything in it will be unclean, and you must break the pot.
This parable has been given a wide variety of interpretations. It may be a warning against letting the "Kingdom", which according to Thomas 3 is "inside of you and outside of you" [1] slip away like the lost flour: [5] it may also be a simple warning against self-confidence.
The Songye people have a creation myth involving two gods, Mwile and Kolombo, creating humans out of clay as part of a rivalry. [27] Some of the Dinka of Sudan believe Nhialac, the creator, formed the humans Abuk and Garang from clay. The clay was put into pots to grow, and eventually came out as fully-grown adults.
Nergal and Ereshkigal (Amarna Version) 103–104: Nergal and Ereshkigal: Enūma Eliš: 1.111: Epic of Creation: 60–72, 501–503: The Creation Epic: Dynasty of Dunnum: 1.112: The Theogony of Dunnu: 517–518: A Babylonian Theogony: 1.115: Prayer to Gods of the Night: 390–391: Prayer to the Gods of the Night: Great Prayer to Šamaš: 1.117 ...
For this the field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day. — Douay–Rheims Bible. The site referred to in these verses is traditionally known as Akeldama, in the valley of Hinnom, which was a source of potters' clay. After the clay was removed, such a site would be left unusable for agriculture, being full of ...
This parable compares building one's life on the teachings and example of Jesus to a flood-resistant building founded on solid rock. The Parable of the Wise and the Foolish Builders (also known as the House on the Rock), is a parable of Jesus from the Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew as well as in the Sermon on the Plain in the Gospel of Luke ().
A French proverb derives from this fable, where the phrase 'It's the iron pot against the clay pot' (C'est le pot de fer contre le pot de terre) is used in cases when the weak come off worst. In 1713 Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was to use La Fontaine's version of the story in her lively recreation, "The Brass-Pot and Stone-Jugg". [6]
Daniel 2 (the second chapter of the Book of Daniel) tells how Daniel related and interpreted a dream of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon.In his night dream, the king saw a gigantic statue made of four metals, from its head of gold to its feet of mingled iron and clay; as he watched, a stone "not cut by human hands" destroyed the statue and became a mountain filling the whole world.