Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou hast gained thy brother.
It’s so simple and obvious: if a problem arose between you two – you should first of all solve it together...
It’s so simple and obvious: if a problem arose between you two – you should first of all solve it together. But why do we have the opposite: we are ready to discuss our damaged relations with anyone, but only not with the person with whom we should have? We are maybe afraid of a direct conversation, that it may reveal instability of our own position, and finally – the justice of our “opponent”? And maybe we do not like the situation that if it turns out that we are right we will have to forgive – and no one will know about our generosity, do we? One way or other, with the “help” of all these rumors and gossips we try to improve our “rating”, our popularity in the others’ eyes through humiliation and condemnation of our brothers – and thus we lose them. The risk of losing frightens in direct conversation, but after all, we should not forget that the possible “win” is great: we can get our brother back.
There are no readings on Sunday
There are no readings on Sunday
There are no readings on Sunday
Why such a difference in the Jewish and Greek chronologies ? How to explain that in the beginning God creates people and gives them the commandment of reproduction (what they did not do while in Paradise), and then in the chapter 2 He creates the woman? Does it mean then that the second chapter doubles the first?
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But how can we avoid giving offence to some? or being offended at others! Especially suppose they are quite in the wrong? Suppose they commit a known sin? Our Lord here teaches us how: he lays down a sure method of avoiding all offences.Whosoever closely observes this threefold rule, will seldom offend others, and never be offended himself. If any do any thing amiss, of which thou art an eye or ear witness, thus saith the Lord, If thy brother - Any who is a member of the same religious community: Sin against thee,