From Nave’s Topical Bible
Ossifrage
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.
- 2Passages listed
- 2Books of the 66
- 1896Nave's edition
How Nave’s arranged it
- (A carnivorous bird)
- Forbidden as foodLeviticus 11:13Deuteronomy 14:12
The passages, in Bible order (2)
The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.
- Leviticus 11:13
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
Commentary on Leviticus 11:132 voices
Among the fowls - The true signification of the following Hebrew words is now lost, as the Jews at this day confess; which not falling out without God's singular providence may intimate the cessation of this law, the exact observation whereof since Christ came is become impossible.
John Wesley· Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament, 1765Evangelical
He adds too that they are not to eat "kite or mastophage or eagle," meaning "You shall not go near those who make their livelihood by plundering others." He says other similar things under some sort of allegory.
Clement of Alexandria· The Instructor Book 3Patristic
- Deuteronomy 14:12
but these you may not eat: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,