About Uribe's statements against the Court, where the whitewashed tombs called several little things I tell them.
This metaphor used by Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew to refer to the Pharisees for their hypocrisy, and inconsistent with their own ideas, they preach and not applied, has its historical background.
In ancient times and according to the Mosaic Law, when something was unclean to have made contact with unclean it represented too. Leprosy remains one of the most dangerous diseases of the time, it was said that those in contact with another person, contaminated and should, according to the book of Leviticus a rigorous practice ritual, which according to the reading, it seems made for anyone to be met, so strict, the same happened when a menstruating woman during this period was unclean and could not contact with other, much less Jews. In addition to the Jewish people, those who practiced the priesthood, were also a number of major constraints such as contact with dead people, with a ban, except in cases where the deceased was a close relative to the priest could approach the corpse.
One practice that was made then for the purpose of avoiding contact or even touch the graves was blanched so they could be distinguished. From this practice comes the term whitewashed tombs and this was his goal.
But in history there have been some of the graves that were well known due to the remains guarded, like Absalom son of David, who once promised to be better than his father but not only disappoint the people but almost annihilate. Some interpretations are
mention Jesus when I use that term referred not only to hypocrisy but because they looked white on the outside but inside kept corruption, an allegory to the Tomb of Absalom.
Returning to the present, the accusative language-noacusativo President Uribe, I wonder what was what I really wanted to tell the court?
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