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Old 04-21-2006, 05:40 AM   #17
littlemanpoet
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Actually, pigs are highly intelligent & scrupulously clean animals - its only human farming methods which have created the image of the pig as a 'dirty' creature.
Sorry, I should have been more forthcoming in my little description. I was referring to the Jewish understanding of pigs/swine. According to Jewish custom, based on the OT, they were numbered with the unclean animals. I can just imagine Jesus walking along with his disciples, and they pass by a pig farm, and Jesus uses the opportunity to say yet another mysterious thing about the Kingdom of God.

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