Birds: Given As Food to Man

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Genesis 9:2,3
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be on every beast of the earth, and on every fowl of the air, on all that moves on the earth, and on all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
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Whether the Body of Man was Given an Apt Disposition?
... man; thus dogs have a keener smell, and birds a swifter ... First, because the senses
are given to man, not only for ... of the senses only as ordered to food and sex ...
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Whether Adam in the State of Innocence had Mastership Over the ...
... falcon. Nor does Bede's gloss on Gn.1:30, say that trees and herbs were
given as food to all animals and birds, but to some. Thus ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/aquinas/summa theologica/whether adam in the state 2.htm

Of the Condition of the Beasts and Man.
... taking food; and since it has not been given to them ... their own bodies, they convey
to them food, and spend ... Why should I say that the offspring of birds is much ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap iii of the condition of.htm

The Rule Given About not Seeking One's Own Gain is Established...
... They feed their young with what they get, and the birds satisfy their brood with
food; but to men alone has it been given to feed all as though they ...
/.../ambrose/works and letters of st ambrose/chapter iii the rule given.htm

Of the Outer Limbs of Man, and their Use.
... these things relate to man alone, or to birds, in which ... the dumb animals, that it
collects the food when bruised ... thinks that the name of tongue was given to it ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap x of the outer limbs.htm

Of the Intestines in Man, and their Use.
... to the soul, in truth, He has given another abode. ... has sent forth from itself the
food softened, it ... skilful arrangement, that the bladder, which birds do not ...
/.../lactantius/on the workmanship of god/chap xi of the intestines in.htm

Chapter xv.
... man has a higher rank in the nature of things than irrational ones, such as birds. ...
was to be given for the clothing too, just as one is given for the food. ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/augustine/our lords sermon on the mount/chapter xv 2.htm

No Man Can Serve Two Masters; and that Because it is Necessary ...
... Is not the life better than the food, and the body [3] than the ... [756] Consider the
birds of the ... and ye shall be released: give, that ye may be given unto; with ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/hogg/the diatessaron of tatian/section x no man can.htm

Thankfulness to God.
... We have dominion over the birds in the air, we have ... the net and bring them in for
our food; we hunt ... He has brought you into the world, and has given you power ...
/.../the village pulpit volume ii trinity to advent/lxiii thankfulness to god.htm

The Struggle for Life
... is how birds live, and this is how birds are made. ... the enormous place this factor
has been given to play ... when the immediate quest succeeds, and the food of Man ...
/.../the lowell lectures on the ascent of man/chapter vi the struggle for.htm