Matthew 23:27

“For the sepulchre appears beautiful outside, but within it is full of dead men’s bones, and all uncleanness; even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of wickedness and hypocrisy.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27, 28.

“xxiii. 26–28.” — the author cites it

“How many there are nowadays who have lived so long that they bear corpses rather than bodies and are like whited sepulchres filled with dead men’s bones!” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“We know that many persons while they have given alms have yet given nothing which touches their bodily comfort; and while they have held out a helping hand to those in need are themselves overcome with sensual indulgences; they whitewash the outside but within they are “full of dead men’s bones.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“…‘Whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outward, and within are full of dead men’s bones; which pay tithe of mint, and swallow a camel: ye blind guides!’” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27, 23, 24. [Note the examples he gives of the rabbinical expositions. He consents to their principle, but gives nobler analogies.]

“Even so ye outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27, 28.

“The heavens gave testimony by a star; the sea gave testimony, and bore its Lord when He walked upon it; the winds gave testimony, and were quiet at His bidding; the earth gave testimony, and trembled when He was crucified.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“After this, He again derides them for vainglory, calling them “whited sepulchers,”and unto all adding, “ye hypocrites;” which thing is the cause of all their evils, and the origin of their ruin.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“For so did our Lord too call the Jews, for this reason most especially; He went on at least to say, “Their inward parts are full of ravening and covetousness.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 25, and comp. verse 27.

“Wherefore that also must be held to be the resurrection, when a man is reanimated by access to the truth, and having dispersed the death of ignorance, and being endowed with new life by God, has burst forth from the sepulchre of the old man, even as the Lord likened the scribes and Pharisees to “whited sepulchres.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“…is of a ready tongue, but unstable and undisciplined in soul, like the tombs which, fair and beautiful as they are outwardly, are fetid with corpses within, and full of manifold ill-savours; but him who speaks but little of virtue, yet gives many examples of it in his practice, and proves the trustworthiness of his…” — editor's note: S. Matt. xxiii. 27.

“Without, the sepulchre appears beautiful, but within it is full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

“This, he says, is what has been declared, “Ye are whited sepulchres, full,” he says, “of dead men’s bones within,” because there is not in you the living man.” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27.

As above they are said to be “full of extortion and excess,” so here they are “full of hypocrisy and iniquity,” and are likened to dead men’s bones, and all uncleanness.

Justly are the bodies of the righteous said to be temples, because in the body of the righteous the soul has dominion, as God in His temple; or because God Himself dwells in righteous bodies. But the bodies of…

Sepulchres are whitened with lime without, and decorated with marble painted in gold and various colours, but within are full of dead men’s bones. Thus crooked teachers who teach one thing and do another, affect…

For all feigned righteousness is dead, forasmuch as it is not done for God’s sake; yea, rather it is no righteousness at all, any more than a dead man is a man, or an actor who represents any character is the man…

But before their strict Judge they cannot have the plea of ignorance, for by assuming in the eyes of men every form of sanctity, they witness against themselves that they are not ignorant how to live well.

But say, hypocrite, if it be good to be wicked, why do you not desire to seem that which you desire to be? For what it is shameful to seem, that it is more shameful to be; and what to seem is fair, that it is fairer…

Matthew 23:27 and Luke 11:44 share the same wording (11 words).

Cited together in Origen on Matthew 23:27–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).

Cited together in The Instructor III.9.

Cited together in Dialogue with Trypho Chapter 112.