Matthew 5:22 - Jesus does not want us to say that someone betrayed us?

[LuciaPacifici]

“But I tell you that anyone who is angry with a brother or sister will be subject to judgment. Again, anyone who says to a brother or sister, ‘Raca,’ is answerable to the court. And anyone who says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of hell.”

Raca, last time I checked, has to do with accusing someone of betraying you.

I would like to talk more about this passage. Is this about not being angry with people only?

I am confused because if someone does something to break our trust, should we not at least admit, to ourselves, that they betrayed our trust, so that although we should forgive them, we can be careful of trusting them? “Be innocent as doves and cunning as serpents.”

I am wondering about this passage about betrayal; always found it rather cryptic.

 

[hazcompat]

This might help??

spiritualdirection.com/2016/08/09/how-respond-betrayal-lessons-from-pro

Peace

 

[Nelka]

Ver. 22. Whosoever is angry[2] with his brother. In almost all Greek copies and manuscripts we now read angry without a cause: yet St. Jerome, who corrected the Latin of the New Testament from the best copies in his time, tells us that these words, without a cause, were only found in some Greek copies, and not in the true ones. It seems at first to have been placed in the margin for an interpretation only, and by some transcribers afterwards taken into the text. This as well as many other places may convince us, that the Latin Vulgate is many times to be preferred to our present Greek copies. — Raca.[3] St. Augustine thinks this was no significant word, but only a kind of interjection expressing a motion of anger. Others take it for a Syro-Chaldaic word, signifying a light, foolish man, though not so injurious as to call another a fool. — Shall be guilty of the council:[4] that is, shall deserve to be punished by the highest court of judicature, called the council, or sanhedrim, consisting of seventy-two persons, where the highest causes were tried and judged, and which was at Jerusalem. — Thou fool; this was a most provoking injury, when uttered with contempt, spite, or malice. — Shall be in danger of hell fire.[5] Literally, according to the Greek, shall deserve to be cast into the Gehennom of fire. Gehennom was the valley of Hinnom, near to Jerusalem, where the worshippers of the idol Moloch used to burn their children, sacrificed to that idol. In that place was a perpetual fire, on which account it is made use of by our Saviour (as it hath been ever since), to express the fire and punishments of hell. (Witham) — Here is a plain difference between sin and sin; some mortal, that lead to hell; some venial, and less punished. (Bristow)