Love ye therefore the stranger: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
The LORD preserveth the strangers.
Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality.
I was a stranger, and ye took me in.
Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers; Which have borne witness of thy charity before the church: whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort, thou shalt do well: Because that for his name’s sake they went forth, taking nothing of the Gentiles. We therefore ought to receive such, that we might be fellowhelpers to the truth.
3 John 1:5–8
But the stranger who dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you, and thou shalt love him as thyself, for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.
Leviticus 19:34
Let brotherly love continue. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.
Use hospitality one to another without grudging.
For a bishop must be blameless, as the steward of God; not selfwilled, not soon angry, not given to wine, no striker, not given to filthy lucre; But a lover of hospitality, a lover of good men, sober, just, holy, temperate.
And he said, “Come in, thou blessed of the Lord. Why standest thou outside? For I have prepared the house.”
And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.
A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples.
My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you?
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress…
Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.
Matthew 8:20 · Luke 9:58
These images supplement The Host and the Guest , illustrating the link between biology and psychology. One should not suppose that any of the organisms depicted here could provide anything like assent regarding the religious quotations with which they are paired. Rather it is to suggest that the religious notions somehow may lie nascent within universal biological principles — and that these can be seen even within the most basal processes of life and mind.
What others could be included here?
Image sources
- 1 Arctic fox and caribou — World Atlas
- 2 Genet and rhinoceros — Daily Mail
- 3 Heron and cattle — 365 Days of Birds
- 4 Shrimp and goby — Medium
- 5 Pilot fish and whitetip shark — Bluewater Dive Travel
- 6 Tarantula and frog — Biographic
- 7 Emperor shrimp and sea cucumber
- 8 Decorator crab with anemones
- 9 Atta laevigata — leafcutter ants and mutualistic fungus , Wikipedia
- 10 Suriname toad
- 11 One mother for two species — Nature
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