“Do not cast your pearls before swine.” Although I am not sure exactly how we are to follow Jesus’ advice from the Sermon on the Mount recorded in Matthew 7, the editors, reporters and headline writers of the popular press have no doubt about how they can apply this saying, or variations of it, to an extraordinarily wide range of circumstances. On rare occasions, the terms “pearls” and “swine” are taken literally. A brief how-to item in Canada’s National Post is titled “Do Not Be the Swine Before Whom Your Pearls Are Cast”; it begins, “Everyone knows that pearls […]
