Topic: Cattle & Creeping Thing: Patience & Perseverance

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Cattle & Creeping Thing: Patience & Perseverance

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August 24, 2017 at 4:47 pm #4797

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Genesis i. 24. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

This lesson reminds me of Mrs. Eddy’s commentary on the above passage, and of 2 creatures in particular:

Cattle —
SH 514 – “In the figurative transmission from the divine thought to the human, diligence, promptness, and perseverance are likened to ‘the cattle upon a thousand hills’”.

And creeping thing:
SH 515 – “Patience is symbolized by the tireless worm, creeping over lofty summits, persevering in its intent.”

The paragraph heading here reads “Qualities of thought,” and it is striking that Mrs. Eddy would identify both of these creatures, so physically different from one another, as embodying the same quality of thought: perseverance!
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