蜂蜜に関する20の聖句

In the Bible, honey mostly stands for plenty and sweetness. The promised land is “a land flowing with milk and honey” (Exodus 3:8), and God’s words are “sweeter than honey” (Psalm 19:10). Proverbs also warns against eating too much of it (Proverbs 25:16) and compares the adulterous woman’s lips to dripping honey (Proverbs 5:3). In the stories, Samson finds honey in a lion’s carcass (Judges 14:8-9), Jonathan tastes it against his father’s oath (1 Samuel 14:27), John the Baptist lives…