Matthew 15:14

“…what they are to teach: and so it is sure to end in their becoming, as the Saviour said, “blind leaders of the blind” so that “both fall into the ditch.”” — editor's note: Cf. S. Matt. xv. 14.

“But if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14.

“He saith, “They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, they shall both fall into the ditch.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14.

“When blind leadeth blind, they both fall into a ditch.” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14.

Chapter XLVIII.—Of the Absence of Any Discrepancy Between Matthew and Mark on the One Hand, and John on the Other, in the Accounts Which the Three Give Together of What Took Place After the Other Side of the Lake Was…

“For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts,” etc. What is clearer than this explanation?” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 10–20

“Elsewhere, for example, He saith, “But lest we should offend them, cast an hook into the sea:”but here He saith, “Let them alone, they be blind leaders of the blind: and if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14. [So rec. text. The R.V. follows a briefer reading, but properly substitutes “a pit” for “the ditch.”—R.]

“Hence it is that, in the Gospel, the Truth in person says, If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the ditch (Matth. xv. 14).” — the author cites it

“For, wandering in life as in deep darkness, we need a guide that cannot stumble or stray; and our guide is the best, not blind, as the Scripture says, “leading the blind into pits.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14.

“You therefore, who seek after their fashion, looking to those who are themselves ever seeking, a doubter to doubters, a waverer to waverers, must needs be “led, blindly by the blind, down into the ditch.”” — editor's note: Matt. xv. 14.

In one of the Lord’s discourses the whole superstition of Jewish observances had been cut down. They placed their whole religion in using or abstaining from certain meats.

When the Pharisees heard the things that went before, they made no reply to them, because He had so mightily overthrown them, not only refuting their arguments, but detecting their fraud, but they, not the…

As this word ‘scandalum’ (offence or stumblingblock) is of such frequent use in ecclesiastical writings, we will shortly explain it. We might render it in Latin, ‘offendiculum,’ or ‘ruina,’ or ‘impactio;’ and so when…

Christ does not remove the stumblingblock out of the way of the Pharisees, but rather rebukes them; as it follows, “But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.”…

What He intends then by a plant not planted of His Father, is that tradition of men under cover of which the Law had been transgressed, this He instructs them must be rooted up.

Every false doctrine and superstitious observance with the workers thereof cannot endure; and because it is not from God the Father, it shall be rooted up with the same. And that only shall endure which is of God.

Shall that plant also be rooted up of which the Apostle says, “I planted, Apollos watered?” [1 Cor 3:6] The question is answered by what follows, “but God gave the increase.” He says also, “Ye are God’s husbandry, a…

Or, the plant here spoken of may be the doctors of the Law with their followers, who had not Christ for their foundation. Why they are to be rooted up, He adds, “Let them alone; they are blind, leaders of the blind.”

They are blind, that is, they want the light of God’s commandments; and they are “leaders of the blind,” inasmuch as they draw others headlong, erring, and leading into error; whence it is added, “If the blind lead…

This is also the same as that Apostolic injunction, “A heretic after the first and second admonition reject, knowing that such a one is perverse.” [Tit 3:11-11] To the same end the Saviour commands evil teachers to…

Matthew 15:14 and Luke 6:39 share the same wording (9 words).

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 13.

Cited together in The Prescription Against Heretics Chapter 13.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.2.

Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.2.

Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.2.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in Epistles Letter 39.

Cited together in The Book of Pastoral Rule I.2.