Re: Chiasm in Matt 7:6?

From: Nichael Cramer (nichael@sover.net)
Date: Mon Dec 08 1997 - 09:11:24 EST


Ben Crick wrote:

> cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu wrote:
> > 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.

Dogs, too, I believe are unclean.

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