Thematic Bible: Apparent insignificance of


Thematic Bible




For every nature, both of beasts and of fowls, both of creeping things and things of the sea, is subdued, and hath been subdued, by the human nature,


and your fear and your dread is on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the heavens, on all that creepeth on the ground, and on all fishes of the sea -- into your hand they have been given.

Thou dost cause him to rule Over the works of Thy hands, All Thou hast placed under his feet.

all things Thou didst put in subjection under his feet,' for in the subjecting to him the all things, nothing did He leave to him unsubjected, and now not yet do we see the all things subjected to him,


I -- I have said, 'Gods ye are, And sons of the Most High -- all of you,

How much better, therefore, is a man than a sheep? -- so that it is lawful on the sabbaths to do good.'


And ye -- ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director -- the Christ, and all ye are brethren;



And he said unto them, 'Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;





This is an account of the births of Adam: In the day of God's preparing man, in the likeness of God He hath made him;


And God saith, 'Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness, and let them rule over fish of the sea, and over fowl of the heavens, and over cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that is creeping on the earth.' And God prepareth the man in His image; in the image of God He prepared him, a male and a female He prepared them.





having known that, not with corruptible things -- silver or gold -- were ye redeemed from your foolish behaviour delivered by fathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and unspotted -- Christ's --



Also -- the inhabitants of houses of clay, (Whose foundation is in the dust, They bruise them before a moth.)

What is man that Thou dost magnify him? And that Thou settest unto him Thy heart?


Fear not, O worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, I helped thee, an affirmation of Jehovah, Even thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.


He who is sitting on the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are as grasshoppers, He who is stretching out as a thin thing the heavens, And spreadeth them as a tent to dwell in.




How much less man -- a grub, And the son of man -- a worm!