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I," said the donkey, shaggy and brown. "I," said the cow all white and red, "I gave Him my manger for His bed, I gave Him my hay to pillow His head; "I," said the cow, all white and red. "I, said the sheep with curly horn, "I gave Him my wool for His blanket warm, He wore my coat on Christmas morn; "I," said the sheep, with curly horn.
But he answered and said, I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel. The New International Version translates the passage as: He answered, "I was ...
Early 6th century Byzantine mosaic art, depicting Christ separating the sheep from the goats. The blue angel is possibly the earliest artistic depiction of Satan.. The Sheep and the Goats or "the Judgement of the Nations" is a pronouncement of Jesus recorded in chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other ...
This is said to show the power of Christ since in this way innumerable wolves are overcome by very few sheep (the twelve apostles), which are the most defenceless of all animals. St. Jerome comments that by being wise the apostles are to avoid snares, and by being harmlessness and simple they are not to do evil.
Parable of the Lost Sheep (right) in St Mary's Cathedral, Kilkenny, Ireland. The Parable of the Lost Sheep is one of the parables of Jesus. It appears in the Gospels of Matthew (Matthew 18:12–14) and Luke (Luke 15:3–7). It is about a man who leaves his flock of ninety-nine sheep in order to find the one which is lost.
And the Sheep will be naked before you'll go bare. The more men are wretched the more you will rule But thunder out 'Sinner' to each bloody fool; For the Kingdom of God (that's within you) begins When you once make a fellow acknowledge he sins. Rebellion anticipates timely by 'Hope,' And stories of Judas and Peter the Pope
On other shepherds asking him why he had hanged a sheep, the shepherd answered: The skin is that of a sheep, but the activities were those of a wolf." Abstemius's comment on the story follows the Biblical interpretation: 'people should be judged not by their outward demeanor but by their works, for many in sheep's clothing do the work of wolves ...
The Sheep is a character, created by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a.k.a. Lewis Carroll. It appeared in Dodgson's 1871 book, Through the Looking-Glass , the sequel to his 1865 book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland .