Reference: Arts and Crafts
Hastings
One of the most characteristic distinctions between the Hebraic and the Hellenic views of life is found in the attitude of the two races to manual labour. By the Greek it was regarded as unworthy of a free citizen; by the Jew it was held in the highest esteem, as many Talmudic aphorisms bear witness. The general term in OT for craftsman (2Ki 24:14; Jer 24:1 RV), artificer (1Ch 29:5), or skilled artizan is ch
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No one puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch pulls away from the garment, and the tear is made worse.
Is this not the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary? And his brothers James, Joseph, Simon, and Judas?
"But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
"No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; if he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and the tear is made worse.
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? Are not his sisters here with us?" And they took offense at him.
and his clothes became dazzling, exceedingly white, as no launderer on earth could bleach them.
And Peter stayed for many days in Joppa with a tanner named Simon.
Send therefore to Joppa and ask for Simon who is called Peter; he is lodging in the house of Simon, a tanner, by the sea.'
and because he was of the same trade he stayed with them, and they worked, for by trade they were tentmakers.
These he gathered together, with the workmen of similar trades, and said, "Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.
Then Paul said to him, "God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?"
Eat anything that is sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience;
Alexander the coppersmith did me great harm; the Lord will repay him for his deeds.