![]() What was the amazement of the spectators, when the Lion after one glance bounded up to him and lay down at his feet with every expression of affection and delight! It was his old friend of the cave! The audience clamoured that the Slave’s life should be spared: and the governor of the town, marvelling at such gratitude and fidelity in a beast, decreed that both should receive their liberty. On the fatal day the beasts were loosed into the arena, and among the rest a Lion of huge bulk and ferocious aspect and then the wretched Slave was cast in among them. Here he was presently recognised and carried off in chains to his former master, who resolved to make an example of him, and ordered that he should be thrown to the beasts at the next public spectacle in the theatre. A day came, however, when the Slave began to long for the society of his fellow-men, and he bade farewell to the Lion and returned to the town. The Lion’s gratitude was unbounded he looked upon the man as his friend, and they shared the cave for some time together. ![]() He accordingly removed it and dressed the wound as well as he could: and in course of time it healed up completely. Observing it to be much swollen and inflamed, he examined it and found a large thorn embedded in the ball of the foot. The man gave himself up for lost: but, to his utter astonishment, the Lion, instead of springing upon him and devouring him, came and fawned upon him, at the same time whining and lifting up his paw. Really, however, it was a Lion’s den, and almost immediately, to the horror of the wretched fugitive, the Lion himself appeared. As he wandered about in search of food and shelter, he came to a cave, which he entered and found to be unoccupied. 12:11).A Slave ran away from his master, by whom he had been most cruelly treated, and, in order to avoid capture, betook himself into the desert. As Revelation puts it: “they overcame by the blood of the lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death” (Rev. This means that the suffering and death of Christians is likewise an act of war and resistance. But notice that this submission is “resistance.” The death of Jesus was the death blow of all principalities and powers, the death blow to Satan’s project. Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd has weighed in on the controversy over Cecil the lion. Library Lion A Lion in Paris Caring for Your Lion The Lion Who Stole My Arm (Heroes of the Wild) The Pride of Baghdad How to Be a Lion The Marsh Lions. But after they have suffered a little while, they will be raised up, whether they are delivered from persecution in this life or literally raised from the dead at the end. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Lion and The Shepherd - Short Stories with Pictures from Aesop Fables for Young Children. Following these elder-shepherds as they follow the example of the Chief Shepherd may very well mean suffering and death, as it did for Jesus, the Chief Shepherd. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. 34:2-3).īut secondly the implication is that submission to the Christian elders is submission to protection from these false shepherds, protection from these lions who are seeking to devour the flock of God. ![]() If the Jews are specifically in Peter’s mind, as seems implicit in a number of places in 1 Peter, then Peter is consciously comparing Christian elders to the “shepherds of Israel” who continue to “devour” the flock of God (Ez. The “devil” then is a sort of “ruler” who contrasts with the shepherds of the Chief Shepherd who are called to “rule” in an entirely different sort of way (5:2-3). This is helpful in a couple of ways: First, if the “adversary” and the “the devil” is tied specifically in Peter’s mind to the mechanism of persecution (which it seems to be, given 5:9), then the “devil” here would seem to be something similar to the “principalities and powers” spoken of elsewhere which seems to combine demonic beings with earthly, political rulers. ![]() My friend and colleague, Joshua Appel, pointed out that 1 Peter 5 actually holds together fairly tightly: moving from exhortation to elders to “shepherd the flock” faithful as those who will give account to the Chief Shepherd ultimately to the exhortation to resist the devil who is a “prowling lion” seeking to devour them. ![]()
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