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The Importance of Being Due to Others
Around the time of Jesus, all sorts of rabbis were on the hunt for a way to summarize the Torah. And this teaching that you have in front of you, chapter 7, verse 12, is Rabbi Jesus' stab at it. Let's work through it phrase by phrase. First off, sow. So in Greek it's the word soon, which we usually translate therefore. Whenever you read a soon or a therefore, it's a signpost pointing not forward but backward to everything that the author just said. If you then, your evil, not a good gift to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him? This next line