“... We may presume Jesus cited Deuteronomy 6:5 to the scribe in Aramaic. It would be interesting to know what word he used as a rendering of me’od of the Hebrew text. The Septuagint renders this by dynamis, “might,” “power,” etc.; the synoptics use ischys, “strength.” [...] Palestinian tradition, as found in the Palestinian Targum, Onqelos and the Peshitta, rendered the word in the sense of “riches,” “abundance,” each choosing a different word to express this idea. The Palestinian Targum as found in Neofiti, Pseudo-Jonathan and the Fragment Targum has: “[thou shalt love the Lord] with all your wealth” (mamonak); Onqelos (and Targ. 2 Kings 23:25) has “with all thy property” (niksak), while the Peshitta renders “with all thy possessions” (qnynk). We may safely assume, then, that in Christ’s day this injunction of the Shema‘ was taken to mean a command to love God with all one’s external possessions. When the rich man came to Jesus asking what he should do to attain eternal life, Jesus replied that for him this meant putting this injunction of his profession of faith into practice in a particular way. Loving God with all one’s riches was now interpreted for the rich man as meaning to sell what he had, give to the poor, and follow Christ. ...”