Do not give what is holy to dogs (Matthew 7:6)

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Yomelijah

3 min readDec 29, 2022

“Do not give what is holy to dogs, neither throw your pearls before swine, that they may never trample them under their feet and turn around and rip you open” (Matthew 7:6).
Obviously the dogs and the swine symbolize physical humans whose behavior is not spiritual at all (1 Corinthians 2:16). However, in this specific case, Jesus Christ explains that these humans can cause injury or even death. What are “holy” or “pearls” are spiritual gifts connected to the sacred service for God, among other things, the proclamation of the good news and biblical teaching. Within the framework of the Christian ministry of the Word, the Christian must be cautious, and must have insight to know the time not to insist: “Look! I am sending you forth as sheep amidst wolves; therefore prove yourselves cautious as serpents and yet innocent as doves” (Matthew 10:16).
All the people who refuse to listen for a time, the good news, or who have a different point of view or reject the Word of God, are not to be put in the category mentioned by Jesus Christ. He was with sinners in order to bring them back to the right path: “I have come to call, not righteous persons, but sinners to repentance” (Luke 5:27–32). In some religions or congregations, Christians are excommunicated for having a different point of view on the interpretation of the Bible. While these Christians are placed in the category of apostates, some go so far as to call them “dogs” and “swine”, while their behavior has nothing to do with the dangerousness mentioned by Jesus Christ, namely to harm them or to endanger the life of those who are insulting them.
Regarding this painful situation, especially for people ostracized by a whole set of congregations, things are in the hands of King Jesus Christ, at the time of the judgment of the Christian congregations, shortly before the congregation (Matthew 25). For people who do not hesitate to insult them, according to Matthew 7:1–4, but also according to Matthew 5:22, they put themselves in an extremely dangerous situation, because if the ostracized person or persons were to to be exonerated, their good reputations restored, on the day of judgment, what will happen to the people who will have seriously insulted them?
“However, I say to you that everyone who continues wrathful with his brother will be accountable to the court of justice; but whoever addresses his brother with an unspeakable word of contempt will be accountable to the Supreme Court; whereas whoever says, ‘You despicable fool!’ will be liable to the fiery Gehenna” (Matthew 5:22).

The teaching of Jesus Christ that leads to spiritual maturity

The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5 to 7)

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