MATTHEW 23:17 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?”
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred? The rhetorical question exposes the incoherence of the oath-casuistry: the gold of the temple is sacred because of the temple, not vice versa. The gold's sanctity derives from the temple's sanctity; swearing by the gold of the temple invokes the temple's holiness whether one acknowledges it or not.
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