Giving to the Poor

I am certain that God does not give you credit for giving to the poor by virtue of you voting for a politician who supports a government policy of taking money from people who have more money and giving it to the poor. You are only credited for what you actually personally sacrifice and personally give to a poor person you know. I am certain of this.

Robin Hood was a thief. So is a government that confiscates money from one person and gives it to a person who did not earn it. And as far as I am concerned, if you vote for such a politician or government, you are a thief too.

The Bible does not support the idea of taking money, or food, or anything else from one person and giving it to someone who does not work. Some claim that in the Old Testament under Moses there was socialism. No, not if by that you mean there were any people who were idle. No one was idle; everyone did something. Idleness was not in the least tolerated.

ORGISQEIS vs. SPLAGCNISQEIS

I just uploaded an update of my translation of the Gospel of Mark. What I updated was the critical footnote apparatus for chapter 1 verse 41, ORGISQEIS vs. SPlAGCNISQEIS. Jeff Cate has pointed out that the apparatuses out there were in error regarding MSS 783 and 1358.

This Greek variant in Codex D and some old Latin texts has Jesus becoming angry, as opposed to being filled with compassion as it is read in all other Greek manuscripts.

Grenfell & Hunt Hibeh Papyri

Uploaded: Grenfell and Hunt, the Hibeh Papyri Part 1

Edited with translations and notes. With Ten Plates.

“The papyri which form the subject of the present volume were obtained in the spring of 1902 from the Ptolemaic necropolis of El-Hibeh, partly by purchase, partly from our first excavations at that site, as is recorded in the Introduction. On p. 5 will be found an explanation of the remarkable fact that some of the literary papyri here edited belong to MSS. of which fragments were published by us in 1897. The papyri were, with one exception (no. 23), derived from mummy-cartonnage, and all belong to the third century B.C. …” Bernard P. Grenfell – Arthur S. Hunt.

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