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WHY JESUS BLESSED THE CHILDREN (MK 10:13-16 PAR.) by J. DUNCAN M. DERRETT Blockley, England The blessing of the children is no longer' understood in the sentimental sense once common. Jesus may have been fond of children-people who have none of their own often are-but it is not supposed that the pericope owes its existence to that.2 Not long ago it was suspected that the pericope proved the existence of a bap- tismal liturgy, and that Mk 10:14 4 (yi xmX6E<E) refers to some such motif.3 This is now generally abandoned,4 rightly-as we shall see. Strange things, but plausible, are said nowadays about the pericope. An excellent treatment is found in a somewhat obscure 1 G. Klein, Ärgernisse. Konfrontationen met dem Neuen Testament (Munich, 1970), 70-1 (the chapter, pp. 58-81, corresponds to a lecture given in 1964. E. Haenchen, Der Weg Jesu (Berlin 21968), 344 rightly warns against reference to past or present 'child psychology'; at 346 he interprets 'child' as one who is ambitionless, 'child' means not child, but 'humble' (ibid., 347, 349). At 348 he deals with Thomas 22 (p. 85.20-22), a saying which, as it generalises the virtue of babyhood as example of sexless non-differentiation,
Novum Testamentum – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1983
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