ravens
animal · 6 works · 8 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the raven · ghurāb · a raven · ghurāb al-bayn · the kite · the raven of separation · the ravens · الغراب
spoken of as
2 expressionsRaven4 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq (Arabic) · Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
" For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.
the raven2 mentions
Stromata (Greek) · Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ (Arabic)
"You shall not eat the pig, nor the eagle, nor the sharp-winged, nor the raven, nor any fish that has not a scale in itself.
in the texts
Stromata
Bird forbidden by Mosaic law, allegorized as greed.
" For the eagle signifies plunder, the hawk injustice, and the raven greed.
"You shall not eat the swine, nor the eagle, nor the hawk, nor the raven.
"You shall not eat the pig, nor the eagle, nor the sharp-winged, nor the raven, nor any fish that has not a scale in itself.
Adversus Marcionem
Birds cited as an example of creatures fed by the Creator's providence without labor.
whose ravens too neither sow nor reap nor lay up in storehouses, and yet are fed by him;
Who would have commanded this but he who both feeds the ravens and clothes the flowers of the field, who before granted to the ox too treading out the grain freedom of mouth for the pardon of fodder, in removing it from the work, because the worker is worthy of his hire?
Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ
The bird behind the tribal name Banū Ghurāb, cited among the animals whose many lexical names are really by-names turned into names.
and so for the cock, the raven, the mare, the camel, the wolf, the serpent, the locust and the rest of their animals, besides the names of weapons — to say nothing of the synonyms among the names of the sun, the rain, the sea, the well, milk, honey, wine and fire;
De Rerum Natura
Black birds used in a hypothetical reductio to show colour cannot be an intrinsic property of seeds.
For then 'twere meet that ravens, as they fly,
Should dartle from white pinions a white sheen,
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The raven, both the omen-bird whose croak is falsely made the cause of separation and, imagined with four legs, the example of the merely possible.
And stranger than this is the man who makes what is not a cause into a cause — as one who hears a raven croak and sees that a company of those he passed by have parted, and judges that the raven is the parter of loved ones.
Nothing has parted loved ones, after God — save the camels And people blame the raven of separation — because they were ignorant Nor is it upon the back of the raven of separation — that the saddle is bound Nor, when a raven cries out in the dwellings — do they set off And the raven of separation is nothing — but a she-camel or a camel
for we conceive a raven having four legs, and that is not impossible for us, and we see nothing to prevent it, yet we do not judge that it exists, because we have not verified that.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
The ravens that fed Elijah with bread and flesh, contrasted with the later angelic gift of bread and water alone.
When the ravens had been wont to satisfy him with bread and flesh, why was it that afterward, at Beersheba of Judaea, when he was roused from sleep, that certain angel offered him doubtless bread alone and water?