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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But no man ingrafts a patch of undressed cloth into an old garment, for the piece supplied taketh from the garment, and the rent becomes worse.
Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?
And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones, who believe in me, to stumble, it were better for him that a millstone was hung at his neck, and that he was sunk in the depth of the sea.
Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye resemble tombs whitewashed, which outwardly indeed appear specious, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all manner of impurity.
And no man seweth on a patch of cloth undressed upon an old garment: but if otherwise, the new piece supplied taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James and Joses, and Judah and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.
His garments became glistering, exceeding white, like snow; such as no fuller upon earth can whiten.
Then it came to pass, that he abode many days at Joppa with one Simon a tanner.
Send therefore to Joppa, and invite Simon, whose surname is Peter, to come to thee; he lodgeth in the house of Simon the tanner, near the sea: who, when he is come will talk with thee.
And as he was of the same occupation, he abode with them, and worked, (for by trade they were tent-makers:)
whom collecting together, with the workmen also of such trinkets, he said, Sirs, ye know that by this employment we make our advantageous livelihood:
Then said Paul unto him, God is ready to smite thee, thou whited wall: for art thou sitting to judge me according to the law, and violating that law, commandest me to be smitten?
Every thing which is sold in the shambles eat, asking no question for conscience sake;
Alexander the brazier did me many ill offices: the Lord repay him according to his works: