Bible Dictionary: Birds: Symbolical

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Daniel 7:6
After this I beheld, and see another, like a leopard, which had on the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
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But Besides, if Birds of Augury Converse with one Another...
... with one another, [4040] as Celsus maintains they do, the prophetic birds having
a ... himself who sent him to the light." And it is with a symbolical meaning [4043 ...
/.../origen/origen against celsus/chapter xci but besides if.htm

The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
... but also such of other barbarians as prosecuted philosophy, that affected the
symbolical style. ... for he said, "If we do not take our flight like birds, or like ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter viii the use of the.htm

The Confessions of St. Augustin Index of Subjects
... literary, merit of the, [216]62 (note), [217]81 (note). the Psalms "a Bible in little,"
[218]131 (note). Birds of the air symbolical of pride, [219]80 (note). ...
/.../augustine/the confessions and letters of st/the confessions of st augustin.htm

Certain Prayers and Laws.
... teller, an observer of palmistry; he that, when he meets you, observes defects in
the eyes or feet of the birds or cats, or noises, or symbolical sounds: let ...
/.../various/constitutions of the holy apostles/sec iv certain prayers and laws.htm

The Minne-Songs
... quest of the Holy Grail"knightly romances and histories of saints that were half
mystical and symbolical, half legendary ... But when the birds' delicious song. ...
/.../winkworth/christian singers of germany/the minne-songs.htm

The Fear Felt by the Inhabitants of Jerusalem.
... stars appeared, but the light they cast was red and lurid; the birds were so ... The
darkness which reigned around was but symbolical of that which overspread his ...
/.../the dolorous passion of our lord jesus christ/chapter xliv the fear felt.htm

The Old Faith Preparing for the New - Development of Hellenist ...
... stories, or to the popular beliefs, and by tracing the supposed symbolical meaning
of ... The birds allowed for food were all tame and pure, and they fed on corn ...
/.../edersheim/the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter iii the old faith.htm

Five Catechetical Lectures the Same Author,
... his dominion also in darkness, therefore, looking with a symbolical meaning towards ...
The watching of birds, divination, omens, or amulets, or charms written on ...
/.../cyril/lectures of s cyril of jerusalem/five catechetical lectures the same.htm

The Church in Babylon
... We have here the same symbolical name as in the Book of Revelation, where ... the old
saying, you cannot build walls high enough to keep out the birds; and spirits ...
/.../expositions of holy scripture ephesians peter/the church in babylon.htm

The Silence of God
... The birds all fly there, not because the water is better, but because there is ... physical
science, a congeries of fables more or less symbolical, suddenly struck ...
//christianbookshelf.org/bertrand/saint augustin/v the silence of god.htm