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Matthew 23:24
New American Standard Bible (NASB)
24 You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
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Matthew 23:24
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
English Standard Version (ESV) The Holy Bible, English Standard Version Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.
R.T. France from his Matthew commentary states: 'This lack of sense of proportion is delightfully burlesqued in the ridiculous picture of a gnat strained out of a drink to avoid impurity (Leviticus 11: 20-23) while a camel also impure, (Leviticus 11: 4) is swallowed whole. The joke may have been aided by an Aramaic pun on qalma (gnat) and gamla (camel).' France (1985: 329).
FRANCE, R.T. (1985) Matthew, Grand Rapids, IVP, Eerdmans.
Following is not a perfect example by any means, but it made me ponder...
On the corporate site I was informed in regard to the landlord reasonably being green in accordance with a major corporate tenant's wishes to also be green and turn the lights down in certain areas after regular working hours.
The results were that certain employees were left in the dark as they needed to perform required functions and were put in slightly dangerous situations that were potentially even more dangerous.
The intellectual and philosophical blindness came to mind of Matthew 23: 24.
In this corporate example an attempt to be green was well-meaning, but placing an area of the site in darkness also placed persons performing functions after regular business hours in darkness and in danger.
A worse thing and evil proportionally was committed.
A problem in this story from the both the billion dollar corporate landlord and trillion dollar corporate tenant is that in their attempts to be green and politically correct they both overlooked the potential human need for regular lighting that would be required in that particular area involved. As a result an incident occurred and now changes are now required to bring the lighting back to regular working hours settings, after hours in that area.
A camel was swallowed (human beings were placed in danger) in an attempt to strain out a gnat (save human beings some energy and be green).
