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What Does Silver Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
A good name is more desirable than great riches, and loving favor is better than silver and gold.
What does the color silver mean in the Bible?
Silver: the currency of the world the ego prizes, the tokens of advantage and security a mind hoards to feel safe while the guilt beneath goes untouched.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 8:10
Where the color silver appears in the Bible
Zechariah 11:12
I said to them, “If you think it best, give me my wages; and if not, keep them.” So they weighed for my wages thirty pieces of silver.
1 Chronicles 18:10
he sent Hadoram his son to king David, to Greet him, and to bless him, because he had fought against Hadadezer and struck him (for Hadadezer had wars with Tou); and he had with him all kinds of vessels of gold and silver and bronze.
1 Corinthians 3:12
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble,
The color silver through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · Proverbs 22:1
Christian Psychology
There is a choice between two kinds of worth, and a mind decides at every moment which it will treasure. Riches stand for the ego's proof, the gathered evidence that one is safe by being separate and supplied. But such wealth can be lost, and a mind that leans on it stays afraid, guarding what it fears to lose.
The good name and loving favor are worth of another order: they are what a mind is when it chooses love, and love cannot be stored or stolen. To value being kind above being rich is to learn that identity is not owned but given, and what is given in love returns whole.
- Riches, silver and gold: the ego's proof of worth by possession, the gathered defenses that can be lost.
- Good name: the self a mind wears when it chooses love, a worth that cannot be taken because it was never owned.
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Esoteric · Zechariah 11:12
Esoteric
Silver is the reflective metal of the mind, thought that mirrors like the moon and takes no light of its own. To weigh out silver as a price is to set the reflecting mind against the true worth of the inner shepherd and name a figure for it. The number 30 reduces to its root 3, the creative principle, the power in a person by which spirit expresses and manifests: so here that manifesting power is sold off cheap, the creative life priced like common coin. The story hides in Scorpio, where the same wage counts out the degrees of the deep sign. What is beyond price in a person gets valued by a mind that only mirrors and does not shine.
- Silver: the reflective mental metal, thought that mirrors like the moon and shines with no light of its own
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What the color silver means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisSilver cup in Benjamin's sack: The cup is planted on Benjamin. A test: will they abandon Rachel's son as they abandoned Joseph?Genesis 44:1-17
- Psychoanalysis300 pieces of silver to Benjamin: Benjamin gets silver, reversing the silver the brothers took for Joseph.Genesis 45:16-24
- PsychoanalysisSold for 20 pieces of silver: Joseph is sold for silver. Christian readers later saw a parallel with Judas. The Self is betrayed for gain.Genesis 37:12-30
- ManifestationTwenty pieces of silver (verse 28): hope that was let down, disappointed expectancy.Genesis 37:12-30
- PsychoanalysisSilver returned in the sacks: Their money is secretly returned. Grace that frightens the guilty.Genesis 42:25-38
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