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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 2971633, member: 83956&quot;]An interesting bit of background info to a contemporary issue, Ed.</p><p><br /></p><p>And of course, there’s the Biblical parable of the hidden treasure in a field from Matthew 13:44: “The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field. When a man found it, he hid it again, and then in his joy went and sold all he had and bought that field.”</p><p><br /></p><p>Jesus seems to speak approvingly of the man’s actions, though it’s a hard parable to parse. Was the man (clearly not the property owner) legally entitled to the find under Jewish (or Roman provincial?) law, but had to buy the land in order to extract the treasure easily–which seems to be the Wiki interpretation?</p><p><br /></p><p>Or did the treasure fully belong to the property owner, so the worker bought the land so that he could legally claim the treasure too?</p><p><br /></p><p>The difficulty for me here is that the worker appears to be sneaky or unethical, keeping the find from the property owner, and yet Jesus seems to affirm his action. Perhaps the point of the parable is to seek the Kingdom by any means necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>But nowhere in the parable is it implied that the find should go to the state or ruling authority.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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