The Instructor Himself will say again, loving to refer to Himself the kindness (εὐποιίαν = lit. 'doing well' or 'good doing') of the brethren, Inasmuch as you have done it to these least, you have done it to Me [Clement Paedagogue 1.5]Jastrow points out that zakah the root of the name 'Zacchaeus' means among other things 'doing well.'
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Another Linguistic Clue to the Meaning of the Figure of 'Zacchaeus'
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dating back to conversations with his grandfather, Gaston Frank. "He said we represent one of the last descendants of the Frankist Jewish faith in the world," he muses. "I grew up thinking that our family was something like the Last of the Mohicans."