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Pig - a Christian perspective
Leviticus lays out the laws for clean and unclean animals for the Hebrew people. Pigs were considered unclean, even though it has a split hoof and does not chew the cud.
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Pigs: Matthew 8:28-34;
The account of Jesus' healing of a demon-possessed man. Nobody else dared go near the violent man, but Jesus cast the demon out of him with a word into a herd of pigs. The pigs proceeded to run off the side of a cliff into the water.
http://biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%208:28-34&version=KJV
A FABLE FOR THE TIMES, C.H. Spurgeon
FABLE. A CERTAIN MAN had long accustomed himself to eat out of the same trough with a beast, and being rebuked for such unclean feeding, he replied that he did not object to it, and that by long-established custom he had acquired a right to eat in that fashion
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