Codex Discretio Maior

Biblical Meaning of “Holy” as Set Apart and Weight-Bearing (Qōdesh and the Weight of Separation)   Key Scriptures   Matthew 7:6 “Do not give what is holy to dogs; nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you in pieces.”   Jesus names a reality of stewardship, not contempt. Holy things require discernment because misuse does damage in two directions: the gift is trampled, and the steward is wounded. This warning is not about

Nothing God calls holy is left unmanaged. From the Garden to the Tabernacle, from the Ark to the Temple, from priesthood to parables, Scripture reveals a consistent pattern: holiness is always accompanied by order, boundaries, and stewardship. Where God consecrates, He also governs. Endless access is never presented as love; faithful administration is.   Administration does not diminish holiness—it preserves it. What is left open without discernment is eventually mishandled.

There is a cost few are taught to calculate: the quiet, cumulative loss that occurs when mercy is poured without discernment. It does not announce itself loudly. It does not arrive with immediate scandal or visible failure. Instead, it erodes slowly—through fatigue that never quite lifts, through fruit that never fully forms, through a sense of being constantly spent yet strangely unfulfilled. Misdirected mercy rarely feels wrong at first. It often feels noble, spiritual, eve