Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 23:23-26.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. (But) these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.
In typical harvest of any farm products, the Jews were required to pay tithes for them.
Mint, dill and cummin were ofcourse farm products but they were not as many in quatity compare to grains and the like. But since Pharisses were hypocrites, they still pay tithes on them.
This is a classic case when the primary became the secondary and the secondary became the primary.
A genuine Christian act comes from the heart, i.e. done because of love, and that which makes relationships stronger.
Take the case of going to mass on Sundays. The proper attitude should be, 'I want to attend the mass because I want to listen to the word of God, I want to be with the Lord and with my fellow Christians.' Some Christians simply go to mass to fulfill their Sunday obligations, just for the sake of attendance.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and fidelity. (But) these you should have done, without neglecting the others. Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel! Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You cleanse the outside of cup and dish, but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence. Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, so that the outside also may be clean.
In typical harvest of any farm products, the Jews were required to pay tithes for them.
Mint, dill and cummin were ofcourse farm products but they were not as many in quatity compare to grains and the like. But since Pharisses were hypocrites, they still pay tithes on them.
This is a classic case when the primary became the secondary and the secondary became the primary.
A genuine Christian act comes from the heart, i.e. done because of love, and that which makes relationships stronger.
Take the case of going to mass on Sundays. The proper attitude should be, 'I want to attend the mass because I want to listen to the word of God, I want to be with the Lord and with my fellow Christians.' Some Christians simply go to mass to fulfill their Sunday obligations, just for the sake of attendance.
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