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(93)

Do not give what is holy to the dogs,

lest they cast it on the dung-heap.

Do not cast the pearls to the swine, lest they make it [ . . . ].
LAYTON

(93) , 'Do not give holy things to dogs, lest they throw them upon the dunghill.

Do not throw pearls to swine lest they [. . .]."

97 [93]. "Give not that which is holy to dogs, in case they throw it onto the dunghill; and cast not pearls to swine, for fear that they should make it [. . .]


Matt 7:6, Did 9:5.


Visitor Comments

Make sure that your gift of importance is given to those that will understand, appreciate and hold holy.

Someone who is not ready and not in an understanding to receive this gift will treat it as garbage and cast it away.
- Luci


I wonder if it doesn't also warn against teaching to people who will twist the holy teachings for their own agenda.
- belle

Look at this in reverse: 93 (also) makes demands on the would-be "teacher;"

the True teacher illuminates the student.

This demands senstivity to the student as they are in the Now, not to where one would have them.

This, of course, is a masterful way of forcing the 'Teacher' to be the student anew.
- E. Grove
Scholarly Quotes

Robert M. Grant and David Noel Freedman write:

"The disciples are to seek and to find; but they are not to make public what they have found.

The holy is not to be given to dogs; pearls are not to be cast to swine (outsiders are dogs and swine,

as the Basilidians taught: Epiphanius, Pan., 24, 5, 2). Gnostics and Christians alike were fond of this mysterious saying (Matthew 7:6).

but Thomas probably does not have this interpretation in mind, at least not here." (The Secret Sayings of Jesus, p. 186)

R. McL. Wilson writes: "As Grant and Freedman note, Gnostics and Christians alike were fond of this saying, and it was applied to secret doctrines, to Baptism, and to the Eucharist.

It has become a proverb, and the explanator additions are suggested by the saying itself, whereas in the Synoptic parables it is the lesson that is dominant, even to the point of producing such 'impossible' illustrations as those of the beam in the eye or the camel passing through the eye of a needle." (Studies in the Gospel of Thomas, p. 67)

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