Let's do both - here's a blog draft in your voice, and we can keep this chat as the conversation version underneath. --- *Title: Iyqa Raqa - The Rhyme They Deleted - Mat 5:22* Mat 5:22 AEIB *דכל מן דנרגז על אחוהי איקא... וכל דנאמר לאחוהי רקא* Most say *איקא - eike - without cause* is added to make it easier. I submit it is original because it rhymes. *ܐܝܩܐ - iyqa - S709 - without cause / empty* *ܪܩܐ - raqa - S20260 - empty head / I spit on you* *iyqa raqa* - same qa ending. Rhyme. Escalation: 1. Angry empty - in heart - *איקא* 2. Say empty - with mouth - *רקא* 3. Say fool - to damn - *ללא - lala* You need 1 and 2 to keep poetry. Greek saw *εἰκῇ / ῥακά* and thought doublet, deleted one. P67, Vaticanus delete *εἰκῇ* - breaks rhyme. Peshitta keeps rhyme because original was Aramaic wordplay. Greek variants prove Aramaic swing: - *ܐܝܩܐ* can be *without cause* OR *vainly* - Greek had to pick - some picked *εἰκῇ*, some omitted If Greek original, why create Aramaic rhyme? I...