Expressões bíblicas usadas atualmente com a palavra CAST [cast your bread upon the waters; cast pearls before wine; cast the first stone]

All the expressions we're touching on today have some kind of influence from biblical quotations. Everybody knows how applicable Bible can still be today even though so much time's separated us from the day it was written. For example, the Bible teaches us how to act generous for simply being right and not because you expect a reward. Suppose you're a jack of all trades [a person able to do a variety of jobs acceptably well], and whenever your neighbors need a little help with a leaky shed or a faulty gate, you make no excuses before giving them a little hand without expecting anything in exchange. When people wanna talk about you on that sense, they say you cast your bread upon the waters. That's a proverb from the Bible you can still use today like any other modern expression. It refers to that very honorable action of giving without expecting. Let's move on to our second biblical expression with the word cast.

Suppose you're a very considerate person who's always trying to give your friends and family the best of you. One day you find out one of your very close relatives is in need of good advice and there you go again feeling like it's your place to help him out. After many pieces of advice, you realize he's not taken any of your words and that makes you very frustrated. When a friend of yours sees how frustrated you are, he tells you: Giving him advice is just casting pearls before swine. He doesn't listen. Can you understand that expression? When you cast pearls before swine, you waste something good on someone that doesn't care. Just imagine how much of a waste it would be to literally cast pearls before swine.

And finally our third and last expression: to cast the first stone. You must have heard of this one. We say it all the time in Portuguese. To cast means to throw something. So in what situation would you tell someone not to cast/throw the first stone? That's right: when you don't want them to make the first criticism, to be the first to attack. So imagine you did something wrong and people are about to judge you. Before they do though, as an attempt to get away with your mistake, you say: Alright, cast the first stone if you've never done something wrong before. Jesus once said that to teach people only those who are faultless have the right to pass judgment upon others, implying that no one's faultless and therefore has no right to judge. That's it for today guys. Talk to you next time!