Matthew 23:26 (WEB)
You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
Fathers and councils · 17
Irenaeus of Lyons
“And saying similar things to these men, He declares: “Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse that which is within the cup, that the outside may be clean also.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 26.
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Jerome
“xxiii. 26–28.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
““Cleanse,” He saith, “the inside,” and “the outside shall be clean also.”…” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 26.
Read the whole comment“For which cause our Lord Himself also with His own mouth saith, “Cleanse what are within, and what are without will be clean.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 26
Read the whole comment“Therefore, says the Lord, “Cleanse that which is within, and the outside shall be clean also.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 26.
Read the whole comment“For this is the import of “all things,” both inward and outward things, as we read in another place: “Cleanse first that which is within, that the outside may be clean also.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 26
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John Chrysostom
“Cleanse that which is within the cup, that the outside may be clean also.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 25, 26. [The minor textual variations appear in the above English rendering.]
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Gregory of Nazianzus
- Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters Letter 102Letters on the Apollinarian Controversy
“They who take away the Humanity and the Interior Image cleanse by their newly invented mask only our outside, and that which is seen; so far in conflict with themselves that at one time, for the sake of the flesh, they explain all the rest in a gross and carnal manner…” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 25, 26.
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Tertullian
“These are the true purities; not those which most are superstitiously careful about, taking water at every prayer, even when they are coming from a bath of the whole body.” — editor's note: See Matt. xv. 10, 11, 17–20; xxiii. 25, 26.
Read the whole comment“We are not washed in order that we may cease sinning, but because we have ceased, since in heart we have been bathed already.” — editor's note: See John xiii. 10 and Matt. xxiii. 26.
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Clement of Alexandria
“Cleanse first the inside of the cup, that the outside may be clean also.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 25, 26.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- JeromeCatena Aurea on Matthew
In different words, but to the same purport as before, He reproves the hypocrisy and dissimulation of the Pharisees, that they shewed one face to men abroad, but wore another at home. He means not here, that their…
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Or, He means that the Jews whenever they were to enter the temple or to offer sacrifice, or on any festivals, used to wash themselves, their clothes, and their vessels, but none cleansed himself from his sins; but…
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He therefore is reproving those who, pursuing an ostentation of useless scrupulosity, neglected the discharge of useful morality. For it is the inside of the cup that is used; if that be foul, what profit is it to…
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This He speaks not of the cup and platter of sense, but of that of the understanding, which may be pure before God, though it have never touched water; but if it have sinned, then though the water of the whole ocean…
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Note, that speaking of tithes He said, “These things ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone:” for tithes are a kind of alms, and what wrong is it to give alms? Yet said He it not to enforce a legal…
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This discourse instructs us that we should hasten to become righteous, not to seem so. For whoso seeks to be thought so, cleanses the outside, and has care of the things that are seen, but neglects the heart and…
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Cross-references · 21
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 76.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 76.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in The Enchiridion Chapter 76.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in Letters Letter 102.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in On Repentance Chapter 6.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in The City of God X.24.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13 and 1 other place.
Cited together in On Prayer Chapter 13 and 1 other place.