gadarene swine造句

• Apparently related to Low German " bigge ", Gadarene swine, who drowned.
• A group of frightened pigs run across the scene in a reference to the story of the gadarene swine.
• It emphasises inertia through the portrayal of the distraction of Cromwell's horse by wayside fodder, which is also being eaten by a lamb from the farm : a reference to the concept of the Christian Gadarene swine.
• Munroe likens himself and his colleagues to " Gadarene swine . . . in our new and insane competitiveness; in our rising desperation for ratings; our prurient glee in discussing the President's sex life; in our rush to report unsubstantiated rumor, leaks and gossip ."
• Gadarene swine to drown to demonstrate that man has no duties to animals : " Christ himself shows that to refrain from the killing of animals and the destroying of plants is the height of superstition . . . " Thomas Aquinas ( c . 1225 1274 ) qualified Augustine's position, arguing that human beings should be charitable to animals only to make sure that cruel habits do not carry over into our treatment of other humans, or cause a financial loss to the animal's owner . " If in Holy Scripture there are found some injunctions forbidding the infliction of some cruelty toward brute animals . . . this is either for removing a man's mind from exercising cruelty towards other men . . . or because the injury inflicted on animals turns to a temporal loss for some man . . ."