Capitolo 10
it departs personal in the later lotteries against Rome from which was organized
the heroic Bar Cochba of years 131 to 135. Akiba put on the face
against the frivolity and pronounced silence an enclosure on the wisdom. But his
the disposition was resolved rather than severe. Of him the most romantic of
you love histories it is said. He was a herdsman, and it fell in love him of his
the daughter of master that bore poverty as his/her lover wife and it was
glorified in the fame of his/her husband. But whatever contrast can have there
is in the two characters, Akiba, as Jochanan he/she believed that a
literature was unworthy unless been expressed in the life of the
studious. Its school and he contained in low respect the man that, nevertheless
learned, it conducted a bad life, but they took as them ideal the man which
moral excellence was more evident than its culture. How R. Eleazar,
the child of Azariah, says: "Him of who knowledge is in excess of his/her good person
actions are as a tree whose branches are many and its roots scarce; the
wind comes, it eradicates, and the cuff. But him of who good actions am more
what its knowledge is as a tree with few it branches but a lot of roots, this way
what if everybody the winds in the come world and it blows on him, he/she remains
firm in his/her place." Crews, according to Akiba, it is master of his really
destiny; he needs of the grace of God to triumph on bad, still the triumph
it depends on his own efforts: "All is seen, still the liberty of choice
you/he/she is given; the world is judged by grace, still all are second the
job." The Torah, the literature of Israel was to Akiba "a desirable
tool", a means to the life.
Among the distinctions of the school of Akiba the first misprint must have called
translation of the Bible in the Greek. This job was done toward the
closes some second century from Aquila, a proselyte from what you/he/she was inhaled
Akiba is teaching. The version in Aquila was inferior to the Greek Alexandrians
version, called the Septuagint, in the graces of style but it was superior in