Acts 23:3 (WEB)
Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?”
Fathers and councils · 2
“…but, “God,” saith he, “shall smite thee, thou whited wall: and sittest thou to judge me according to law, and contrary to law commandest me to be smitten?” with most deep insight beholding that the priesthood of the Jews was already become such, that in name it outwardly was clean and fair, but within was foul…” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 3
Read the whole comment“For what belonged to humility he wonderfully preserved, when, on its being said to him, “Revilest thou the high priest?” he replied, “I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest; for it is written, Thou shall not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.”” — editor's note: Acts xxiii. 3–5.
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.19.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.19.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.19.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.19.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 27.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 27.
Cited together in On Lying Chapter 27 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On the Sermon on the Mount I.19.