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Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Matthew 7:15 KJV

domestication

Sheep were among the first animals to be domesticated by humankind (although the domestication of dogs probably took place 10 to 20 thousand years earlier); the domestication date is estimated to fall between 11,000 and 9000 BC in Mesopotamia and possibly around 7000 BC in Mehrgarh in the Indus Valley.

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Fort Steilacoom was an ex-sheep ranch of the Puget Sound Agricultural Co., an off-shoot of the Hudson Bay Co., being no longer needed, was gladly leased to the Quartermaster’s Department for the use of the troops.1 Bennett Hill’s Co. of the First Artillery was the first to occupy it and we were his successors with Company C. of the Fourth Infrantry.2 The location was on the plain which is now the site of the Insane Asylum, and has many advantages.3 The soil was level and hard and had produced some magnificent oak trees on the edge of the parade ground overshadowing the officers’ quarters.

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How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days. Matthew 12:12 KJV

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DANGER SHEEP CLIFF

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Jonathan Edwards (theologian) (Wikipedia) Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703 – March 22, 1758) was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America’s most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards’ theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life’s work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical aptness, and how central the Age of Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His work gave rise to a doctrine known as New England theology.

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What did one shepherd say to the other shepherd? Let’s get the flock out of here! Martin Riggs, Lethal Weapon

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tautology

To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology. Mark Twain

Wikipedia

Sheep (Wikipedia) Sheep or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are domesticated, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Although the term sheep can apply to other species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to domesticated sheep. Like all ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. An adult female is referred to as a ewe (/juː/), an intact male as a ram, occasionally a tup, a castrated male as a wether, and a young sheep as a lamb.

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