And honors not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God void by your tradition.
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Glossa Ordinaria
AD 1480
Ap. Anselm: In this interpretation the sense will be, What I offer to God will profit both you and myself; and therefore you ought not to take of my goods for your own needs, but to suffer that I offer them to God.
ap. Anselm: Or the sense may be, “Whosoever,” that is, of you young men, “shall say,” that is, shall either be able to say, or shall say, “to his father or mother,” O father, the gift that is of me devoted to God, shall it profit thee?as it were an exclamation of surprise; you ought not to take it that you may not incur the guilt of sacrilege. Or, we may read it with this ellipsis, "Whosoever shall say to his father” he shall do the commandment of God, or shall fulfil the Law, or shall be worthy of life eternal.
