CORBAN (MO, an Aramaic word meaning " a consecrated gift." Josephus uses the word of Nazirites and of the temple treasure of Jerusalem. Such a votive offering lay under a curse if it were diverted to ordinary purposes, like the spoil of Jericho which Acha

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CORBAN (MO, an Aramaic word meaning " a consecrated gift." Josephus uses the word of Nazirites and of the temple treasure of Jerusalem. Such a votive offering lay under a curse if it were diverted to ordinary purposes, like the spoil of Jericho which Acha n appropriated (Josh. vii.), or the temple treasure of Delphi which was seized by the Phocians, 356 B.c. The word is found in Mark vii. 11, the usual interpretation of which is that Jesus refers to an abusea man might declare that any

part

PART

of his property which came into his parents' hands was

corban

CORBAN (MO, an Aramaic word meaning " a consecrated gift."
Josephus
- JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS (c. 37-C. 95?)
uses the word of Nazirites and of the temple treasure of Jerusalem. Such a votive offering lay under a curse if it were diverted to ordinary purposes, like the spoil of Jericho which Acha

, consecrated, i.e. that a curse rested on any benefit they might get from it. The Jewish scribes thus fenced the law of vows with a traditional interpretation which made men break the most binding injunctions of the

Mosaic

MOSAIC (corresponding to Lat. opus musivum, from Gr. µovoeiov, an artificial grotto often decorated with mosaics; the word is only found in the sense of mosaic in late Greek, which generally uses k oXI yrlµa)

Law, in this

case

CASE
CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

the fifth commandment. A totally different explanation of the passage is put forward by J. H. A.

Hart

in The Jewish Quarterly

Review

REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

for July 1907, the gist of which is that Jesus commends the

Pharisees

PHARISEES

for insisting that when a man has vowed a vow to God he should pay it even though his parents should
suffer.

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