Matthew 23:28 (WEB)
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Fathers and councils · 9
Irenaeus of Lyons
“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.
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Jerome
“xxiii. 26–28.” — the author cites it
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Augustine of Hippo
“Even so ye outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.”” — editor's note: Matt. xxiii. 27, 28.
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Catena Aurea on Matthew
- OrigenCatena Aurea on Matthew
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.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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Cross-references · 1
Cited together in Origen on Matthew 23:27–28 (2) (Catena Aurea).