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Chris -- 2018-04-11
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An addition to the religious eggcorns (and mondegreens). I’m not sure there is a particular significance to “gathering swine” except as a description of a deranged group.
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Well, you learn something new every day. Gadarine swine. When I was in school, we had a history teacher who one particular day was pretty mad at the class and refered to us as (amongst other things) the ‘gathering swine, herding toward the precipice’. At least, that is what I heard. Today, some 35 years later I realise that he did not (in his rage) call us the ‘gathering’ swine, but it more than likely we were the Gadarine swine
The gathering swine show that Satan is incapable of restraint when he is given control, his irresistible urge to destroy completely is too strong.
(http://thundersounds.blogspot.com/2007/ … -sick.html)
If one would not be caught in the mad rush of those who are like the gathering swine in the New Testament, one must understand that every golden moment of new beginnings for oneself must be self-consciously transformed
(http://theosophytrust.org/tlodocs/artic … a.htm&p=83)
And when I look at the three cricket stumps… I think of the three virtues or of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego!
And when I look at the four bails… I think of the gathering swine… or at least, four of them!
(http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=62217)
And the others, of course, are like the gathering swine, are they not, in your Scriptures. They have galloped free of their pen.
(http://thepeacockgroup.org/book/export/html/16)
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Lovely. We could do a whole series on misinterpreted phrases from the Bible, I should think.
For several years I was part of a congregation that worked closely with a minimum security rehabilitation center for high school youth convicted on drug charges. The local priest tried to involve the young people in the church service, as servers, readers, etc. Some of them struggled with the unfamiliar rituals and stories. I remember that a young fellow assigned to read the New Testament passage about Peter’s betrayal ended by saying that Peter “went out and swept bitterly.” I thought the mental image of St. Peter pushing an embittered broom fit the mood of the story rather well.
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