Matthew 23:12-14
1599 Geneva Bible
12 (A)For whosoever [a]will exalt himself, shall be brought low: and whosoever will humble himself, shall be exalted.
13 ¶ [b]Woe therefore be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, [c]hypocrites, because ye shut up the kingdom of heaven before men: for ye yourselves go not in, neither suffer ye them that would [d]enter, to come in.
14 (B)[e]Woe be unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour widows’ houses, even [f]under a color of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
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- Matthew 23:12 He seemeth to allude to the name of the Rabbis, for Rabbi signifieth one that is aloft.
- Matthew 23:13 Hypocrites can abide none to be better than themselves.
- Matthew 23:13 Christ when he reproveth any man sharply, uses this word, to give us to understand that there is nothing more detestable than hypocrisy and falsehood in religion.
- Matthew 23:13 Which are even at the door.
- Matthew 23:14 It is a common thing among hypocrites, to abuse the pretence of zeal to covetousness and extortion.
- Matthew 23:14 Word for word, under a color of long praying. And this word, Even, noteth a double naughtiness in them: the one, that they devoured widows’ goods: the other, that they did it under a color of godliness.
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