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Casting Pearls Before Swine

Posted on 13 October 2009

Apparently, this term comes from the Sermon on the Mount, the famous speech given by Jesus to his disciples. In a nutshell – and in Aramaic – Jesus is explaining to the disciples that they should not waste good things on people who will not appreciate them.

Apparently,  there is much discussion in theological circles that “pearls” in this instance may have been mistranslated, but given that people have been talking about casting pearls before swine for two thousand years, a new translation is definitely a no-go area.

In the time of Christ, pigs were regarded as unclean animals in the Jewish faith, so in a sense, the term applies to not giving great things to those who are unworthy. To be frank, the fact that pearls would be completely useless to pigs didn’t go unnoticed, but I guess the term does illustrate that it is rather foolish to waste things on people who cannot use them or appreciate their value.

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