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Matthew 15:2

Matthew 15:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

tradition: Tradition, in Latin traditio: from trado: I deliver, hand down, exactly agreeing with the original παραδοσις: strong:G3862, from παραδιδωμι: strong:G3860, I deliver, transmit. Among the Jews it signifies what is called oral law, which they say has been successively handed down from Moses, through every generation, to Judah the Holy, who compiled and digested it into the Mishneh, to explain which the two Gemaras, or Talmuds, called the Jerusalem and Babylonish, were composed. Of the estimation in which these were held by the Jews, the following may serve as an example: "The words of the Scribes are lovely beyond the words of the law, for the words of the law are weighty and light, but the words of the Scribes are all weighty."

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