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Corban
American Tract Society Bible Dictionary
or A sacred gift, a present devoted to God, or to his temple, Matthew 23:18 . Our Savior reproaches the Jews with cruelty towards their parents, in making a corbon of what should have been appropriated to their use. The son would say to his needy parents, "It is a gift- whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me," that is, I have already devoted to God that which you request of me, Mark 7:11; and the traditionary teachings of the Jewish doctors would enforce such a vow, and not suffer him to do aught for his parents against it, although it was contrary to nature and reason, and made void the law of God as to honoring parents, Matthew 15:3-9 . The Pharisees, and the Talmudists their successors, permitted even debtors to defraud their creditors by consecrating their debt to God; as if the property were their own, and not rather the right of their creditor.
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Rand, W. W. Entry for 'Corban'. American Tract Society Bible Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/ats/c/corban.html. 1859.
