From: Ben Crick (ben.crick@argonet.co.uk)
Date: Sun Dec 07 1997 - 21:22:28 EST
On Sun 7 Dec 97 (07:38:26), cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
> >What would the swine symbolize if the dogs are Gentiles?
>
> It may very well mean the same thing, if we could view this as an
> instance of Semitic poetic style of parallel formulations of the same
> idea; at any rate, the pig IS an unclean animal from the Jewish
> viewpoint-and both the dogs and the pigs must be understood
> metaphorically to refer to kinds of
> people.
Ach so, Schweinhund!
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