foxes

• foxes

61:3.13The dog fam­ily was rep­re­sented by sev­eral groups, no­tably wolves and foxes; the cat tribe, by pan­thers and large saber-toothed tigers, the lat­ter first evolv­ing in North Amer­ica. The mod­ern cat and dog fam­i­lies in­creased in num­bers all over the world. Wea­sels, martens, ot­ters, and rac­coons thrived and de­vel­oped through­out the north­ern lat­i­tudes.

157:6.12“And now can your faith com­pre­hend the truth of these dec­la­ra­tions in the face of my warn­ing you that the Son of Man will not meet the ex­pec­ta­tions of your fa­thers as they con­ceived the Mes­siah? My king­dom is not of this world. Can you be­lieve the truth about me in the face of the fact that, though the foxes have holes and the birds of heaven have nests, I have not where to lay my head?”

163:2.2One earnest dis­ci­ple came to Je­sus, say­ing: “Mas­ter, I would be one of your new apos­tles, but my fa­ther is very old and near death; could I be per­mit­ted to re­turn home to bury him?” To this man Je­sus said: “My son, the foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head. You are a faith­ful dis­ci­ple, and you can re­main such while you re­turn home to min­is­ter to your loved ones, but not so with my gospel mes­sen­gers. They have for­saken all to fol­low me and pro­claim the king­dom. If you would be an or­dained teacher, you must let oth­ers bury the dead while you go forth to pub­lish the good news.” And this man went away in great dis­ap­point­ment.