The Great Charter of Christ Being Studies in the Sermon On the Mount
The Great Charter of Christ Being Studies in the Sermon On the Mount
William Boyd Carpenter
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This is the distinc- tion which according to Lightfoot lies between the two words — Raca and fool. The first, Raca, he explains as a Jewish nickname ; it is so used in the Talmud ; it is a despiteful title to a despised man. 160 THE INNER IS THE HIGHER So Lightfoot, who gives a story in illustration : "Our Rabbis show a thing done with a religious man, that was praying in the highway : by comes a great man, and gives him the time of the day : but he saluted him not again : he stayed for him, ti...ll he had finished his prayer : after he had done his prayer, he said to him, ' Reka, is it not written in your law, that you shall take heed to yourselves ? Had I struck off thy head with my sword, who should have required thy blood ? ' And so goes the angry man on. " Lightfoot further quotes a phrase of Irenaeus, which in his view comes near to Raca, "Qui exspuit cerebrum, a man that hath no brains. " So Raca signifies a man empty, whether of understand- ing or goodness (Lightfoot, " Erubhim or Miscel- lanies, " Works, vol.
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