Chapter VI 



THE BOOK OF JOB 



If a history of Faith were written^ it would be a history 

 of the world's great heretics* If Faith had been 

 the acceptance of ** sound views/' there would never 

 have been a martyr, and the eloquent chapter on 

 Faith in the Epistle to the Hebrews would never have 

 been written ♦ The men of Faith have always been the 

 heretics of their own day* We are all familiar with 

 the saying of Jesus, ** Ye have heard that it was said to 

 them of old time, * Thou shalt not kill, and whosoever 

 shall kill shall be in danger of the judgment,' but I say 

 unto you, that everyone who is angry with his brother 

 shall be in danger of the judgment, and whosoever shall 

 say to his brother, ' Raca ' (vain fellow), shall be in danger 

 of the Council, and whosoever shall say ' Thou fool,' 

 shall be in danger of the hell of fire/' Most of us have 

 felt that the ending of the saying is unsatisfactory — it 

 should be a crescendo, but it ends with an anti-climax* 

 A friend of mine, the late Professor Bull, told me that 

 ** Raca " is an Aramaic word* Now there is an Aramaic 

 word, '' Moreh," which means not '' fool," but '' heretic," 

 and as ** Raca " is an Aramaic word it seems almost 

 certain that it was not the Greek word '' Moreh," meaning 

 ** fool," that was intended, but the Aramaic word 

 ** Moreh," which means '' heretic*" Here, then, we 

 get the crescendo which we need, to satisfy the eternal 

 fitness of things* ** But I say unto you, that everyone 



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