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!
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