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They surrounded him in a moment. "To see Pilate! For what?" "They have discovered a conspiracy. Pilate's new aqueduct is to be paid for with money of the Temple." "What, with the sacred treasure?" They repeated the question to each other with flashing eyes. "It is Corban money of God. Let him touch a shekel of it if he dare!" "Come," cried the messenger.
But this is the teaching of the elders: a son may say of anything for which his father asks him-a sheep, or a measure of corn, or a field, or a purse of silver-'it is Corban, a gift that I have vowed unto the Lord; and so his father shall have no more claim upon him. Have you said 'Corban' to your father, Ammiel-ben-Jochanan? Have you made a vow unto the Lord?"
I have known girls think they were doing a fine thing by leaving uncongenial parents or disagreeable sisters, and cutting out for themselves, as they fancied, a more useful and elevated line of life than that of mere home duties; while, after all, poor things, they were only saying, with the Pharisees of old, "Corban, it is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;" and in the name of God, neglecting the command of God to honour their father and mother.
"I have said 'Corban," answered Ammiel, lifting his face, still shadowed by that strange smile, "but it was not the Lord who heard my vow." "Tell us what you have done," said the old man sternly, "for we will neither judge you, nor shelter you, unless we hear your story." "There is nothing in it," replied Ammiel indifferently. "It is an old story. But if you are curious you shall hear it.
In Jesus' time there was a bad custom of repudiating parents who for any cause needed to be helped. The children had only to say "Corban," that is, that their goods were dedicated to a sacred purpose, to secure release from their filial obligations. Christ denounced this custom in the strongest terms and declared that the children ought to honour their parents by caring for them.
Ballou, Bartlett, Buckner, Capon, Carmichael, Corban, Maunder and many others, cite instances of cranial fracture and loss of brain-substance, with subsequent recovery.
Lightfoot states that there were thirteen treasure-chests, called Shopheroth, and collectively Corban or Corbonah, which were placed in that part of the temple denominated the Court of the Women. Two of these chests were for the half shekel, which every Israelite was to pay according to the law; and eleven others were appropriated to the uses specified in their respective inscriptions. 1.
"I have said 'Corban," answered Ammiel, lifting his face, still shadowed by that strange smile, "but it was not the Lord who heard my vow." "Tell us what you have done," said the old man sternly, "for we will neither judge you, nor shelter you, unless we hear your story." "There is nothing in it," replied Ammiel indifferently. "It is an old story. But if you are curious you shall hear it.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds, will hardly find words that answer them in the Spanish or Italian, no scanty languages; much less, I think, could any one translate them into the Caribbee or Westoe tongues: and the VERSURA of the Romans, or CORBAN of the Jews, have no words in other languages to answer them; the reason whereof is plain, from what has been said.
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