In esoteric vernacular: The word lion is often employed figuratively, referring to an outstanding scholar as "the lion of the brotherhood",
A scholarly figure as micro............a group of scholars or people, as macro.
(See 'Taliban')
"A lion has come up from Babylon".
The son of a scholar, is called "a lion, son of a lion," while one of no such distinguished parentage is called "the lion, the son of a jackal"
In one instance, however, it is used in a negative sense. Proselytes to Judaism who convert for selfish personal motives were dubbed "the converts of lion", , the allusion being to the Samaritans who it was said adopted the worship of YHWH only because of their fear of "lions".
(II Kings 17:25–28).
In the 'Riddle of the Sphinx', the carcass of the lion was the dead letter of the religion of the day, from which would come honey (or flowers/cornucopeia as the case may be), representing a new improved understanding. This is why the priests couldn't or wouldn't interpret the riddle, while Samson as righteous strongman brought down the house from both sides (pillars).
And wore the lion's skin while carrying the jawbone of an ass. Hee haw.
In esoteric vernacular: The word lion is often employed figuratively, referring to an outstanding scholar as "the lion of the brotherhood",
A scholarly figure as micro............a group of scholars or people, as macro. (See 'Taliban')
"A lion has come up from Babylon".
The son of a scholar, is called "a lion, son of a lion," while one of no such distinguished parentage is called "the lion, the son of a jackal"
In one instance, however, it is used in a negative sense. Proselytes to Judaism who convert for selfish personal motives were dubbed "the converts of lion", , the allusion being to the Samaritans who it was said adopted the worship of YHWH only because of their fear of "lions". (II Kings 17:25–28).
In the 'Riddle of the Sphinx', the carcass of the lion was the dead letter of the religion of the day, from which would come honey (or flowers/cornucopeia as the case may be), representing a new improved understanding. This is why the priests couldn't or wouldn't interpret the riddle, while Samson as righteous strongman brought down the house from both sides (pillars).
And wore the lion's skin while carrying the jawbone of an ass. Hee haw.