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What Does Apple Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.
What does apple mean in the Bible?
Apple of the eye: the mind's power of sight, the perception guarded most closely because how one sees decides what one meets
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 7:2
Where apple appears in the Bible
Song of Solomon 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
Joel 1:12
The vine has dried up, and the fig tree withered; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, even all of the trees of the field are withered; for joy has withered away from the sons of men.
Apple through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 25:11
Christian Psychology
When love chooses the words, they arrive at exactly the moment a mind is ready to receive them, and they carry a worth the ego could never manufacture. Fear speaks to wound or to defend; love speaks only to heal, and its speech is beautiful because it is true.
Such a word is set like something precious in a frame that shows it well. The gold is the changeless value of what love says, and the silver setting is the gentle timing and manner that let it be heard. A mind speaking from peace does not force its meaning; it offers it fitly, and what is given this way is received as a gift rather than an attack.
- Apples of gold: the words love gives, carrying a changeless worth the ego cannot counterfeit
- Pictures of silver: the gentle setting of timing and manner that lets a true word be welcomed instead of feared
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Esoteric · Song of Solomon 2:3
Esoteric
The apple tree standing out among the trees of the wood is the higher consciousness distinguished from the ordinary thoughts crowding the forest of the mind, the one growth that bears sweet, edible fruit while the rest give only wood. Sitting under its shadow is the soul resting in the shade of that higher awareness, sheltered and quieted beneath a presence larger than itself. The fruit sweet to the taste is the direct inner experience of that higher nature, understanding taken in and known by the deepest part of the person rather than merely believed.
The wood is the tangle of common mental life, and the single fruit-bearing tree is what the soul turns to for both shade and nourishment. To taste the fruit is to receive the higher self directly, and to find it sweet.
- Apple tree: the higher consciousness that bears sweet fruit, set apart from the common thoughts around it
- Wood: the crowded forest of ordinary mental life, the many trees that bear no fruit
- Shadow: the sheltering shade of the higher awareness where the soul rests and is quieted
- Fruit: the direct inner experience of the higher nature, understanding taken in and tasted by the deepest self
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- PsychoanalysisMandrakes (love apples): Mandrakes were believed to cause fertility. Jung discussed the mandrake (alraun) as a root shaped like a human, linked to magic and the unconscious.Genesis 30:9-16
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