Little Ones
Joseph Holstege explores Jesus's teaching about "little ones" through Old Testament examples, emphasizing their dependence on those stronger than themselves and how this dependence can either protect or imperil them. The article examines biblical narratives to illustrate the vulnerability of children and the responsibilities of adults toward them, with implications for Christian family life and community care.
Better that a millstone is tied around your neck, and you are cast into the deep water, than that you should offend one of the little ones (Matt. 18:6). Jesus taught this to His arguing disciples after setting a child in the middle of them all. That child was the visual cue, for the disciples and for us, as to what Jesus meant by the "little ones." Little ones are, of course, little. They are too little to keep up with adults on foot, so wagons are sent to carry them from Canaan to Egypt with...
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