01-04-2022, 07:44 PM
So, upon the excuse of preserving their estate, which they could legally claim belonged to God, they would refuse to take care of their own parents who were too old to work any more.
My brain stumbled here... but maybe I figured it out... Pharisees are not necessarily priests, right? And maybe that's not relevant to my stumble... but, if the Pharisee's parents are unable to work and do for themselves, and their son isn't helping either... what does this Pharisee imagine is going to happen when his own child grows up and the Pharisee is the old one? Maybe he figures he's got money and won't need his children to care for him?
Back to the priests... at a certain age they were force-retired according to the law of Moses, if I remember correctly. But their sons would still be priests, and would have an income from which they *could* support their family (parents, spouse(s), children). Was it just a Pharisee problem, or were others (priests, scribes) also exercising these bad habits?
My brain stumbled here... but maybe I figured it out... Pharisees are not necessarily priests, right? And maybe that's not relevant to my stumble... but, if the Pharisee's parents are unable to work and do for themselves, and their son isn't helping either... what does this Pharisee imagine is going to happen when his own child grows up and the Pharisee is the old one? Maybe he figures he's got money and won't need his children to care for him?
Back to the priests... at a certain age they were force-retired according to the law of Moses, if I remember correctly. But their sons would still be priests, and would have an income from which they *could* support their family (parents, spouse(s), children). Was it just a Pharisee problem, or were others (priests, scribes) also exercising these bad habits?
Benjamin