Bible Dictionary: The Ox:

◄ The Ox: (Prepared for a Feast) the Provision of the Gospel ►

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Proverbs 9:2
She has killed her beasts; she has mingled her wine; she has also furnished her table.
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Matthew 22:4
Again, he sent forth other servants, saying, Tell them which are bidden, Behold, I have prepared my dinner: my oxen and my fatted calves are killed, and all things are ready: come to the marriage.
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The Three Parables of the Gospel: of the Recovery of the Lost - of ...
... been couched: Which of you shall have a son or an ox fallen into ... that his younger
brother had come, and the calf long prepared against a feast had been ...
/.../the life and times of jesus the messiah/chapter xvii the three parables.htm

The Parable of the Wedding Feast
... The ox knoweth his ... I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fatlings are killed,
all ... to be saved?" but others need to be attracted to the wedding feast by the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the parable of the wedding.htm

Demonstration vi. --Of Monks.
... The fatted ox is slain and the cup of redemption mixed. The feast is prepared
and the Bridegroom at hand, soon to take his place. ...
/.../aphrahat/aphrahat select demonstrations/demonstration vi of monks.htm

Jesus the Bread of Life.
... Had the feast been given by a banqueting Pharisee, a ... but a new, uncontaminated food,
prepared independently of ... The ox finds ample nourishment in grass; we can ...
/.../the expositors bible the gospel of st john vol i/xiv jesus the bread of.htm

Notes
... baptism was of no avail, save that it prepared the way ... a presepio at Greccio, to
which a living ox and ass ... to the Roman Breviary:" (1) For the Feast of the ...
//christianbookshelf.org/prudentius/the hymns of prudentius/notes.htm

Book ii. Jerome Answers the Second, Third, and Fourth Propositions ...
... of Zacchæus to dinner, and went to the marriage-feast. ... And as the ox was created
for ploughing, the horse ... and lives was made for food, and prepared for the ...
/.../jerome/the principal works of st jerome/book ii jerome answers the.htm

John Bunyan on the Terms of Communion and Fellowship of Christians ...
... eternal judgment; the salvation that God hath prepared for them ... partakers of the
joy of the gospel (Philippians 1 ... 1.) This would be ploughing with an ox, and an ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/john bunyan on the terms.htm

The Greatness of the Soul,
... take vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel, etc ... in, while
on this side glory, where the other house stands, as ready prepared for us ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the greatness of the soul.htm

The Resurrection of the Dead, and Eternal Judgment:
... entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them ... in a high
degree, conformable to the morality and heavenly influences of the gospel. ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the resurrection of the dead.htm

The Holy City; Or, the New Jerusalem:
... to address his fellow-prisoners-he had neither written nor even prepared a sermon ...
then a land of darkness, is now widely covered with gospel blessings-slavery ...
/.../bunyan/the works of john bunyan volumes 1-3/the holy city or the.htm

Subtopics

The Ox used for Carrying Burdens

The Ox used for Drawing Wagons

The Ox used for Earing the Ground

The Ox used for Food

The Ox used for Ploughing

The Ox used for Sacrifice

The Ox used for Treading out the Corn

The Ox was Clean and Fit for Food

The Ox was Fed in Stalls

The Ox was Fed in the Valleys

The Ox was Fed with Corn