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This prevalence of begging was due largely to the want of any adequate system of ministering relief, to the lack of any true medical science and the resulting ignorance of remedies for common diseases like ophthalmia, for instance, and to the impoverishment of the land under the excessive taxation of the Roman government (Hausrath, History of New Testament Times, I, 188 (Eng. translation ...
For the most part, beggars in the New Testament appear to have been genuine paupers whose destitution was caused by circumstances beyond their control, such as physical handicaps or infirmities. Far from condemning the needy for being reduced to begging, Jesus paused to perform miracles on their behalf (Mark 10:46-52; John 9:10-11).
The poverty that seemed to require begging for the sustaining of life was at times occasioned by natural disasters, e.g. blindness, and also by marauding enemies who stripped the land of its crop. Because widows, orphans, and aliens without land rights were esp. apt to suffer under such circumstances, special laws were designed to protect them ( Deut 10:17-19 ; 24:19-22 ; 28:29 ; Ps 68:5 , 6 ).
The words used for "beg," "beggar" of English Versions of the Bible in the New Testament differ radically in idea: in those formed from aiteo (Mark 10:46; Luke 16:3; 18:35; John 9:8 the Revised Version (British and American)) the root idea is that of "asking," while ptochos (Luke 16:20,22) suggests the cringing or crouching of a beggar.
BEG; BEGGAR; BEGGING. 1. No Law Concerning Beggars or Begging in Israel: It is significant that the Mosaic law contains no enactment concerning beggars, or begging, though it makes ample provision for the relief and care of "the poor in the land." Biblical Hebrew seems to have no term for professional begging, the nearest approach to it being ...
This prevalence of begging was due largely to the want of any adequate system of ministering relief, to the lack of any true medical science and the resulting ignorance of remedies for common diseases like ophthalmia, for instance, and to the impoverishment of the land under the excessive taxation of the Roman government (Hausrath, History of New Testament Times, I, 188 (Eng. translation ...
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The New Testament describes the blind beggar Bartimeus sitting by the roadside and begging (Mark 10:46) and a lame beggar soliciting alms at the entrance to the Temple (Acts 3:2). The rabbis are censorious of those beggars who used to feign such afflictions as "blindness, swollen belly, and shrunken leg" in order to arouse the compassion of the ...
