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Submission under (feet). (Romans 16:20, 1 Co 15:25, 27, Eph 1:22, Heb 2:8). When an enemy is put under one’s feet, the enemy is put under by the triumphant will of the victor and his strong resolve to conquer and fulfill his plan. One becomes subject to another's will, word, whim, desire, and law. The foot of the PW is an expression of the superior will and power of its author and His Word, which tramples and subjects to it all other claims to spiritual truth ...
Swine (animal). χοιρος. It begins in Leviticus 11:7: “And the swine, though he divides the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.” The decision to take this in any figurative sense is drawn from a prior assumption on the nature of God, which is built from Scripture elsewhere, primarily from the prescient stream which we call the PW (prophetic word). That God fulfilled prophecy is also an admission that God reveals a plan and a reason for acting in history, for this is the very definition of biblical prophecy, making Jehovah God unique among other claimed deities who are touted as real only by their priests and devotees primarily through tradition and emotion ...
Taught at (the feet of). (Acts 22:3). To learn at the feet is to learn the scriptural foot, being that part of Scripture's pertaining to moral instruction (the law), but that scriptural source of moral instruction which Paul refers in this passage is insistent on teaching, which is against the common notion that the gist of the law is prescriptive, not prophetic ...
Theology. Literally, "the study of God." This is outside of true Christianity. "Theology" is a foreign and philosophical conception that may be engaged devotedly and exhaustively without the motivational belief that a definitive and final demonstration of the reality of the God of its subject has been revealed. As a purely intellectual activity, this theology cannot show God to be more than a concept. Christian theology of the NT writers was never systematized and codified but was assumed predicated exclusively upon the implications from the outworking of the messianic oracles as fulfilled in Jesus of Nazareth, which eclipsed the era of the past, before the revelation of Christ, when all man had to discern God was concept, proposition, reason, emotion, tradition and logical axioms ...
Trampled Under (foot). (Mat 7:6). The foot of the wicked (swine), the workers only of law-keeping, and the preachers of obedience without the PW as their master use the feet to trample the truth of the PW (pearls). This occurs when precious truths of what is primarily the Messiah Jesus and his foreshadowings as the basis for the law are mistakenly preached to those who hate the truth. The audience can turn on the preacher violently, and "trample" the Prophetic Word by making it so relegated and common that it becomes mixed with the religious offscouring of the world. This trampling of the Prophetic Word is not its deletion from the Church, but its debasement by priority. The lesson is that must identify the audience before we risk not only disgracing the PW but threatening our own lives by the resulting rage of the swine ...
/ Bodily Symbols, body, feet, head, heart, tongue
Vile (body). (Phil 3:21). We align "body" not only with the body of Christ, the Church body, and the believer's body but with the body of the Prophetic Word. But how can the PW in any sense be said to be vile (tapeínōsis)? First, the word is too strongly translated. Strong’s says: “depression (in rank or feeling):—humiliation, be made low, low estate, vile.” ...
/ Bodily Symbols, Feet, feet, hands, head, heart, tongue, walking
Walking (feet). Getting this right can be a key to the whole signifying process. Expositors are unanimous that this refers to one’s "moral bearing." “Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?” (Mark 7:5.) A "Walk"  that means "moral bearing" is standard, and a very prosaic meaning ...
/ annointed, Bodily Symbols, body, Feet, feet, kissed, washed, wiped
Washed, Wiped, Kissed, Anointed (feet). (Luke 7:38, 7:44,45, John 11:2, 12:3, 13:5,6,8,9,10,12,14, 1Ti 5:10). The most illuminating instance of this is found in the Last Supper, when Christ washed the feet of the disciples. When finished, in John 13:10: “Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.” ...