From Nave’s Topical Bible
Dove, Turtle
Every passage the 1896 Nave’s Topical Biblegathers under this heading, in Nave’s own arrangement and then in Bible order. MannaFest has not written this page — it is the older index, transcribed, with the Word travelling beside each reference.
- 17Passages listed
- 8Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- Sent out from the ark by NoahGenesis 8:8–11
- DomesticatedIsaiah 60:8
- Nests ofJeremiah 48:28
- Harmlessness of, typical of Christ's gentlenessMatthew 10:16
- Sacrificial uses ofGenesis 15:9
- Prescribed for purification
- Of womenLeviticus 12:6Leviticus 12:8Luke 2:24
- Of NazaritesNumbers 6:10
- Of lepersLeviticus 14:22
- Burnt offering ofLeviticus 1:14–17
- Trespass offering of, for the impecuniousLeviticus 5:7–10Leviticus 12:8
- Sin offering, for those who touched any dead bodyNumbers 6:10
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- Market for, in the templeMatthew 21:12John 2:14
- SYMBOLICAL
- Of the Holy SpiritMatthew 3:16Luke 3:22John 1:32
- See Pigeon
The passages, in Bible order (17)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 16 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Genesis 8:8–11
Then Noah sent out a dove to see if the waters had receded from the surface of the ground.
Commentary on Genesis 8:8–111 voice
Also he sent forth a dove from him,.... Seven days after he had sent out the raven, as in Gen 8:10. to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; for the dove is a creature that delights in cleanness, flies low, and goes far off, so that if it returned not again, he might conclude that the waters were gone off the earth; but being a sociable creature, and familiar to men, and especially loving to its mate, if they were not gone off, it would certainly return again.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)Reformed
- Genesis 15:9
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- Leviticus 1:14–17
If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
- Leviticus 5:7–10
If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons—one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 12:6
When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
- Leviticus 12:8
But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
- Leviticus 14:22
and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
- Numbers 6:10
On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Isaiah 60:8
Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?
Commentary on Isaiah 60:81 voice
For the soul has flights, as has been said, "Who are these that fly like clouds and like doves with their young?" You see, the soul has spiritual flights that, in a brief moment, circle the whole globe. For the thoughts of wise people are free and, insofar as they rise up from lower to higher shadows, so much and more they fly without the hindrance of any earthly weight, and they are the more carried along by the beating of spiritual wings onto that ethereal and rarefied place; [the soul] despises all worldly things.
Ambrose of Milan· Concerning Virginity 17:108Patristic
- Jeremiah 48:28
Abandon the towns and settle among the rocks, O dwellers of Moab! Be like a dove that nests at the mouth of a cave.
- Matthew 3:16
As soon as Jesus was baptized, He went up out of the water. Suddenly the heavens were opened, and He saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and resting on Him.
Commentary on Matthew 3:161 voice
Not by an actual cleaving of the visible element, but to the spiritual eye, as Ezekiel also in the beginning of his book relates that he saw them. It sate on the head of Jesus, that none might suppose the voice of the Father spoken to John, and not to the Lord.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- Matthew 10:16
Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.
Commentary on Matthew 10:162 voices
He calls the Scribes and Pharisees who are the clergy of the Jews, wolves. Wise, that they might escape snares; simple, that they might not do evil to others. The craft of the serpent is set before them as an example, for he hides his head with all the rest of his body, that he may protect the part in which life is. So ought we to expose our whole body, that we may guard our head which is Christ; that is, that we study to keep the faith whole and uncorrupt.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
Behold, I send you forth, as sheep among wolves,.... This, and the following verses, chiefly respect the troubles, afflictions, persecutions, and sufferings which should befall the apostles after the death and resurrection of Christ; when their commission was enlarged, and they afresh sent out by Christ to preach his Gospel; of which he gives a faithful account before hand, that they might be prepared for them, and not be surprised when they came upon them.
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
- Matthew 21:12
Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.
Commentary on Matthew 21:121 voice
And he cast out all them that sold and bought. It should be known that in obedience to the Law, in the Temple of the Lord venerated throughout the whole world, and resorted to by Jews out of every quarter, innumerable victims were sacrificed, especially on festival days, bulls, rams, goats; the poor offering young pigeons and turtle-doves, that they might not omit all sacrifice. But it would happen that those who came from a distance would have no victim.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- Luke 2:24
and to offer the sacrifice specified in the Law of the Lord: “A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.”
Commentary on Luke 2:242 voices
And to offer a sacrifice - Neither mother nor child was considered as in the Lord’s covenant, or under the Divine protection, till these ceremonies, prescribed by the law, had been performed. A pair of turtle doves, etc. - One was for a burnt-offering, and the other for a sin-offering: see Lev 12:8. The rich were required to bring a lamb, but the poor and middling classes were required to bring either two turtle doves, or two pigeons. This is a proof that the holy family were not in affluence.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the BibleEvangelical
(ubi sup.) He ordered two things to be offered, because as man consists of both body and soul, the Lord requires a double return from us, chastity and meekness, not only of the body, but also of the soul. Otherwise, man will be a dissembler and hypocrite, wearing the face of innocence to mask his hidden malice.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- Luke 3:22
and the Holy Spirit descended on Him in a bodily form like a dove. And a voice came from heaven: “You are My beloved Son; in You I am well pleased.”
Commentary on Luke 3:222 voices
Over the waters of baptism, recognising as it were His primeval seat, He reposes: (He who) glided down on the Lord "in the shape of a dove," in order that the nature of the Holy Spirit might be declared by means of the creature (the emblem) of simplicity and innocence, because even in her bodily structure the dove is without literal gall.
Tertullian· On BaptismPatristic
(De Dec. Nic. Syn.) The holy Scriptures by the name of Son set forth two meanings; one similar to that spoken of in the Gospel, He gave to them power that they should become the sons of God; another according to which Isaac is the son of Abraham. Christ is not then simply called a Son of God, but the article is prefixed, that we should understand that He alone is really and by nature the Son; and hence He is said to be the Only begotten.
Athanasius of Alexandria· Catena Aurea by AquinasPatristic
- John 1:32
Then John testified, “I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove and resting on Him.
Commentary on John 1:322 voices
And John bare record,.... The same day that he said the above things, and at the same time: saying, I saw the Spirit; that is, of God, as is said in Mat 3:16 and which Nonnus here expresses; and the Ethiopic version reads, "the Holy Ghost", descending from heaven like a dove; at the time of his baptism; see Gill on Mat 3:
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)Reformed
CHAPTER I. That the Holy Ghost is in the Son not by participation, not from without, but Essentially and by Nature. Having said above that he knew Him not, he profitably explains and uncovers the Divine Mystery, both showing that He Who told him was God the Father, and clearly relating the manner of the revelation.
Cyril of Alexandria· Commentary on the Gospel of John, Book 2Patristic
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