拘守先人的傳統
馬爾谷福音 7:1-13
耶穌指責法利塞人和經師們是「假善人」和「拘守人的傳授」,因他們表面上教人緊守天主的誡命,但其實內心卻離天主很遠,甚至因私心而以人的規律取代天主的教導。
例如天主教導人孝敬父親及母親,包括用財產供養他們;法利塞人卻因貪念,教導那些兒子告訴父母那些財產已成了奉獻給天主的獻儀,以致他們忽略了父母的需要,法利塞人卻可自己霸佔這些祭獻。
因此耶穌責備他們說:「這樣你們便為了你們所傳授的遺教,廢棄了天主的話;並且你們還行了許多其他諸如此類的事。」
你又有沒有由於人的私心或因拘泥於習慣,結果背棄了天主的教導?
(本文以英文為準)
This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.” He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition! For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother, and Whoever curses father or mother shall die. Yet you say, ‘If someone says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban$2″0$ (meaning, dedicated to God), you allow him to do nothing more for his father or mother. You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things.”
Mark 7:1-13
The sense of the word “honour” in Scripture is not so much the saluting and paying court to men, but alms-giving, and bestowing gifts; as St. Paul says, “Honour widows who are widows indeed.” (1 Tim 5:3)
Notwithstanding the existence of such a divine law, and the threats against such as break it, you lightly transgress the commandments of God, observing the traditions of the Elders. For the Pharisees, wishing to devour the offerings, instructed sons, when their parents asked for some of their property, to answer them, what you have asked of us is qorban, that is, a gift already dedicated to God; thus the parents would not require it, as being offered up to the Lord, and in that way profitable for their own salvation. Thus the Pharisees deceived the sons into neglecting their parents, while they themselves devoured the offerings; with this therefore the Lord reproaches them, as transgressing the law of God for the sake of personal gain.
Wherefore it goes on, “You nullify the word of God in favor of your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many such things;” transgressing, that is, the commands of God, that you may observe the traditions of men.
參考 References:
Catena Aurea (St. Thomas Aquinas)
On the Gospel of Mark (St. Bede the Venerable)
Explanations on the New Testament (St. Theophylact of Ochrid)
Pseudo-Chysostom