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"What shall I do To Inherit Eternal Life?"
Well, according to the author of g"Mark" at 10.17-22 there are about 6 commandments to follow, one of which is "Do not defraud".
1. The author of g"Matthew" has answered the same question at "Matthew" 19.16 and given the same response as "Mark". Except that he omits "Do not defraud" and adds "Love thy neighbour as yourself" [the latter coming from Lev.19.18.] 2 [a] "Luke", at 18.18-23, answers the same question with the same words as both "Mark" and "Matthew" and like "Matthew" also omits "Do not defraud". 2 [b] "Luke", at 10.25-28, answers the same question yet again, and like "Matthew" adds "Love ... your neighbour as yourself". So, when "Luke" answers the Markan question he gives, like "Matthew", the basic Markan version but, like "Matthew": omits "Do not defraud" and adds "Love your neighbour as yourself". Coincidence? Twice? cheers yalla |
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or possibly same event wriitten from another person's viewpoint so explaining similarity as well as differences
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The coincidental addition of love your neighbor is a different matter. On the one hand, the true parallel passages to Luke 10.25-29 are Matthew 22.34-40 and Mark 12.28-34; on the other hand, Luke has used the same introduction (eternal life) in 10.25 as all three synoptics use in the rich young ruler pericope, which is where Matthew adds this commandment to the list. So this may be more than sheer coincidence. (Disclosure: I favor the view, at least at present, that Luke knew the gospel of Matthew, so I may be inclined to see a connection here that is not as strong on closer inspection as it seems at first glance. Someone like Andrew Criddle may have a different view of the level of coincidence necessary for both Matthew and Luke to independently link eternal life with love your neighbor.) Ben. |
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The point here is that "do not defraud" is not in the Hebrew Scriptures. Both Matt and Luke "correct" Mark to bring him in line with the Scriptures.
JPHolding jumps through some hoops to defend Jesus against the charge of adding to the law, including suggesting that phrase was a "copyist error," or that Jesus was just testing the rich man to see if he knew the commandments. |
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Actually Ben picked up on what was the point of my post .
In a non-Q section 'Luke' has copied what 'Matthew' has written. The only way he could have done so is by extra ordinary coincidence or by knowledge of 'Matthew's' text. And I agree with Farmer, the omission of 'Do not defraud' is clearly deliberate, its like a missing tooth in an otherwise flashy smile, very conspicuous by its absence from the original "Markan" text. Twice. The addition of the "love thy neighbour' line more than doubles the impact. Two coincidences in the same context are more notable than two separate coincidences in separate contexts. Here both, the omission and the addition, are used to answer the same question. Toto. I have read that "do not defraud' is in the Hebrew scriptures albeit in different form. That is the essence of the idea is there. I'm not sure where exactly, perhaps 'thou shall not bear false witness'? I don't read JP. |
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JW: O foolish InfiDelphians, who did bewitch you, before whose eyes "Mark's" Christ's Paulmary source was openly set forth?: http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/1_Corinthians_7 "7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency. 7:6 But this I say by way of concession, not of commandment. 7:7 Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that." JW: "Mark's" Primary source for his Jesus was Paul. The Jewish Bible was a Secondary source for "Mark". "Matthew"/"Luke" are flipped. For them "Mark" was not Scripture and therefore a higher source was the Jewish Bible. This is why when they deviate from "Mark" it is often a Type story with the Jewish Bible as source. I've already indicated in: Was Paul the First to Assert that Jesus was Crucified? that the Source for "Mark's" Jesus' Passion prediction was Likely Paul. In my future Thread: Outsourcing Paul, A Contract Labor of Love. Paul as Primary Source for "Mark" I will likewise indicate that "Mark's" source for the Eucharist was Paul. Especially telling regarding Paul as Source for "Mark" are the many words of Paul that "Mark" places in his Jesus' mouth. Joseph EDITOR, n. A person who combines the judicial functions of Minos, Rhadamanthus and Aeacus, but is placable with an obolus; a severely virtuous censor, but so charitable withal that he tolerates the virtues of others and the vices of himself; who flings about him the splintering lightning and sturdy thunders of admonition till he resembles a bunch of firecrackers petulantly uttering his mind at the tail of a dog; then straightway murmurs a mild, melodious lay, soft as the cooing of a donkey intoning its prayer to the evening star. Master of mysteries and lord of law, high-pinnacled upon the throne of thought, his face suffused with the dim splendors of the Transfiguration, his legs intertwisted and his tongue a-cheek, the editor spills his will along the paper and cuts it off in lengths to suit. And at intervals from behind the veil of the temple is heard the voice of the foreman demanding three inches of wit and six lines of religious meditation, or bidding him turn off the wisdom and whack up some pathos. http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/Main_Page |
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That seems like a reach. At least as likely: Mark got μη αποστερησης from, say, Sirach 4.1: Do not defraud [μη αποστερησης] the poor of his living. Quote:
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Maybe this is less of a reach: http://www.errancywiki.com/index.php/1_Corinthians_6 "6:7 Nay, already it is altogether a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather take wrong? why not rather be defrauded? 6:8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren. 6:9 Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, 6:10 nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." JW: And what is the Context here Private Benjamin? Looks to me like the Commandments (for the kingdom of God). Joseph |
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