No. Butterflies are never mentioned in the Bible, and Scripture gives them no meaning of their own. The moth appears instead, ten times in the King James Version, nearly always as something that eats away. Its place in Christian hope came later, from saints who heard how a crawling creature comes out with wings and thought of new life. Among them was Basil, bishop of Caesarea, who died in 379. Preaching on the creatures God made, he turned to his…

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