In Matthew 15:14, wherein Jesus charges the
Pharisees with leading the
"blind...into the ditch," he
seems to be invoking the curse of Deuteronomy 27:18 on his opponents (cf. Lev 19:14). “Cursed
be anyone who misleads a blind man on the road.' And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’”
Speaking, as he did, as the master
Torah-expositor, to those who prided themselves as being teachers of the law,
it seems certain that the connotations would have been unavoidably obvious to
all involved.
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