The Bible’s dogs scavenge in towns, work with flocks and lend their name to insults. Elijah says dogs will eat Jezebel (1 Kings 21:23), Job 30:1 mentions “the dogs of my flock,” and Paul warns a church, “Look out for the dogs” (Philippians 3:2). In the Gospels, dogs lick the sores of a beggar at a rich man’s gate (Luke 16:20-21), and a Canaanite woman takes Jesus’ saying about the dogs and answers that even the dogs eat the crumbs…
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