Rashness
RASHNESS
Consists in undertaking an action, or pronouncing an opinion, without a due examination of the grounds, motives, or arguments, that ought first to be weighed.
Fuente: Theological Dictionary
rashness
An act or vice opposed to the virtue of prudence and to the gift of counsel. Prudence is actuated by a memory of past experiences, the consideration of actual circumstances, comparison of reasons pro and con, an ingenious foresight of possible consequences, and the advice of elders. Rashness passes over all this, with very little deliberation. In judgment, it is an act of the mind which asserts something without solid foundation and with lack of evidence.
Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary
Rashness
General references
Psa 116:11; Pro 14:29; Pro 19:2; Pro 21:5; Pro 25:8; Pro 29:20; Ecc 5:2; Ecc 7:9
Instances of rashness:
– Moses:
b In slaying the Egyptian
Exo 2:11-12; Act 7:24-25
b When he smote the rock
Num 20:10-12
– Jephtha’s vow
Jdg 11:31-39
– Israel’s vow to destroy the Benjamites
Jud 21:1-23
– Uzzah, in steadying the ark
2Sa 6:6-7
– David, in his generosity to Ziba
2Sa 16:4; 2Sa 19:26-29
– Rehoboam, in forsaking the counsel of the old men
1Ki 12:8-15
– Josiah, in fighting against Necho
2Ch 35:20-24
– Naaman, in refusing to wash in Jordan
2Ki 5:11-12
– James and John, in desiring to call down fire on the Samaritans
Luk 9:54
– Paul, in persisting in going to Jerusalem, against the repeated admonitions of the Holy Ghost
Act 21:4; Act 21:10-15
– The centurion, in rejecting Paul’s counsel
Act 27:11