Matthew 23:3-5
1599 Geneva Bible
3 [a]All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do: but after their works do not: for they say, and do not.
4 (A)[b]For they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
5 [c]All their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make their [d]phylacteries broad, and make long [e]the (B)fringes of their garments,
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- Matthew 23:3 Provided always, that they deliver Moses his doctrine which they profess, which thing the Metaphor of the seat showeth, which they occupied as teachers of Moses his learning.
- Matthew 23:4 Hypocrites for the most part are most severe exactors of those things which they themselves chiefly neglect.
- Matthew 23:5 Hypocrites are ambitious.
- Matthew 23:5 It was a thread, or ribbon of blue silk in the fringe of a corner, the beholding whereof made them to remember the laws and ordinances of God: and therefore was it called a Phylactery, as ye would say, a keeper, Num. 15:38; Deut. 6:8, which order the Jews afterward abused, as they do nowadays, which hang the St. John’s Gospels about their necks: a thing condemned many years ago in the Council of Antioch.
- Matthew 23:5 Word for word, Twisted tassels of thread which hung at the nethermost hems of their garments.
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