Soul Traffic at Best

03/21/2025

6 Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Matthew 7:6

That's where the soul of the thing comes in at once again. Well, it could be the spirit really, but I think the part which comes next about the knocking on stuff goes best in the end. The trouble is that the soul and the spirit are so often entertwined with the rest. In fact, the text talks about these spirit creatures doing violence bodily speaking. Let's say you feed a hungry dog a crucifix for instance. It's going to be very mad about it isn't it instead of the big ol' juicy steak it was just hoping to have eaten instead. Then again, try throwing some pearls on the ground next time, almost like wisdom or something delicate to be loved and cherished instead. That is when you go out to feed the pigs in the end. Well, the text calls them swine, which I mean technically is a little bit different isn't it than something that's just running wild through the woods. These were the same creatures weren't they which were up in the mountains when the demoniac of Gadarene for Jesus had come out a-seeking. You already should've known how that they'd do violence to whatever of persons whether that be of their keepers in general or just to that of themselves in the end. The result though is sure to have gotten swallowed up of the whole then instead. You know, it's also dangerous just to go out feeding these things cause then they'll rush you if you're short or haven't quite what they need. By that time, whatever you've set out is all that you had and the problem hasn't gotten smaller but larger in number by whatever time you'd have promised them then. It's a principle isn't it that the law works by the soul also as well as the whole and as such involves a movement of persons whether rightly or wrongly towards God in the midst. That's why it's far better to let him do the keeping of men and also the soul tending whatever that would've meant to your person.