King James Bible: Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. --------------------- "in the midst of wolves" would represent the evil matrix of life. Serpents, criminals, etc would be wise to the ways of evil being done to them because their specialty is doing evil to others, so they have learned a lot about preventing and defending themselves from evil. "Harmless as doves" would mean to wordspread through persuasion and not with violence, anger, etc. Bernie Also found this: http://bible.cc/matthew/10-16.htm Neville Jones <njones@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Behold I send you as sheep in the midst of wolves. Be ye therefore wise as serpents and simple as doves. - Matthew 10:16, DRV. As "wise as serpents and simple as doves." What do any of you understand by this? Neville. --------------------------------- Receive Notifications of Incoming Messages Easily monitor multiple email accounts & access them with a click. Visit www.inbox.com/notifier and check it out! --------------------------------- Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.