Upon Our Lord’s Sermon on the Mount Discourse X · §7

Holy things and pearls

Click or tap any sentence to jump there. The side buttons skip a paragraph.

Do not give that which is holy to dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet and turn again and tear you. Matthew 7:6.

1771 text

Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine; lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you.

About this text

Rendered in modern English, to be read and heard. Open the 1771 text under each part to check the claims and the scripture.

Rendered in modern English. The 1771 panel is his own Pine printing of the Works. It is public domain.

Catalogue & scope

Sermon 30 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:1-12.

This is an AI-assisted study translation. Source fidelity and completeness have not been independently certified. It is not a complete critical edition.