THEOSISTheodoret of Cyrus
Moses identifies the rapacious birds as unclean, creatures that feast on carrion and are drawn to darkness, instructing us to refrain from greed, to detest the foul offering of sin, and to loathe the shadows.
Leviticus 11:16Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind.
וְאֵת֙ בַּ֣ת הַֽיַּעֲנָ֔ה וְאֶת־הַתַּחְמָ֖ס וְאֶת־הַשָּׁ֑חַף וְאֶת־הַנֵּ֖ץ לְמִינֵֽהוּ׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Isa 34:11The bittern and ericius shall possess it: and the ibis and the raven shall dwell in it: and a line shall be stretched out upon it, to bring it to nothing, and a plummet, unto desolation.
- Isa 34:15There hath the ericius had its hole, and brought up its young ones, and hath dug round about, and cherished them in the shadow thereof: thither are the kites gathered together one to another.
- Deut 14:15And the ostrich, and the owl, and the larus, and the hawk according to its kind:
- Deut 14:18The bittern, and the charadrion, every one in their kind: the houp also and the bat.
- John 3:19And this is the judgment: Because the light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather than the light: for their works were evil.
- John 3:21But he that doth truth cometh to the light, that his works may be made manifest: because they are done in God.
- Rev 18:2And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen: and is become the habitation of devils and the hold of every unclean spirit and the hold of every unclean and hateful bird:
- Isa 13:21But wild beasts shall rest there, and their houses shall be filled with serpents, and ostriches shall dwell there, and the hairy ones shall dance there: