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Actually it is not \\\"pretty clear\\\".
To the \\\"walk another mile\\\": Laws were in place such that a \\\'Jewish servant\\\' could only walk a mile a day. The primary purpose of this law was to not give any reason for the Jews to rebel. If the Roman let the Jew continue walking then he could be punished. Yet if the Roman confronted the Jew he would admit that the Jew was a person and not an object.
Likewise, the \\\"give your cloak also\\\" was to the Jews, who would have most likely had little more than a coat and a cloak. This meant they went naked. Which meant the other person, the person who took their coat and cloak, had to look at the nakedness. Which in Jewish ideology shamed the person who took the coat and cloak. Remember Canaan in Genesis 9? How he unintentionally saw his grandfather naked? And hence was ostricized? Exactly.
-- Source, predominately Walter Wink, \\\"Jesus and Nonviolence\\\".
To the \\\"walk another mile\\\": Laws were in place such that a \\\'Jewish servant\\\' could only walk a mile a day. The primary purpose of this law was to not give any reason for the Jews to rebel. If the Roman let the Jew continue walking then he could be punished. Yet if the Roman confronted the Jew he would admit that the Jew was a person and not an object.
Likewise, the \\\"give your cloak also\\\" was to the Jews, who would have most likely had little more than a coat and a cloak. This meant they went naked. Which meant the other person, the person who took their coat and cloak, had to look at the nakedness. Which in Jewish ideology shamed the person who took the coat and cloak. Remember Canaan in Genesis 9? How he unintentionally saw his grandfather naked? And hence was ostricized? Exactly.
-- Source, predominately Walter Wink, \\\"Jesus and Nonviolence\\\".
