but with a finger of their owne they wil not move them. 5But they doe al their workes for to be seen of men. For they make brode their [1] phylacteries, and enlarge their Deu. 22, 12. Nu. 15, 38.* fringes. 6And they ″ love the first places at suppers, and Mr. 12, 38.* the first chaires in the Synagogues, 7and salutations in the market-place, and to be called of men, Rabbi. 8But be not you called Rabbi. For ″ one is your Maister, and al you are brethren. 9And call none Father to yourself upon earth: for one is your Father, he that is in Heaven. 10Neither Ja. 3, 1.* be ye called ″ Maister: for one is your Maister, Christ. 11He that is the greater of you, shal be your servitour. 12And he that exalteth himself, shal be humbled: and he that humbleth himself, shal be exalted. ✠
13But woe to you ″ Scribes & Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you shut the Kingdom of Heaven before men. For yourselves do not enter in: and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.
14Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you Lu. 20, 47.* devoure widowes houses, ″ praying long prayers. For this you shal receave the greater judgement.
15Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you goe round about the sea and the land to make one Proselyte: and when he is made, you make him the child of Hel ″ double more then yourselves.
16Woe to you blind guides, that say, whosoever shal sweare by the temple, it is nothing: but he that shal sweare by the gold of the temple, is bound. 17Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold? 18And whosoever shal sweare by the Altar, it is nothing: but whosoever shal sweare by the guift that is upon it, is bound. 19Ye blind; for whether is greater, the guift, or the Altar that ″ sanctifieth the guift? 20He therfore that sweareth by the Altar, sweareth by it, and by al things that are upon it: 21And whosoever shal sweare by the temple, sweareth by it and ″ by him that dwelleth in it: 22and he that sweareth by Heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
23Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law, judgement, and mercie, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to have omitted those. 24Blind guides, that straine a gnat, and swallow a camel.
25Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you make cleane that on the outside of the cup and dish: but within ‘they are ful’‘you are ful of rapine and uncleannes. 26Thou blind Pharisee, first make cleane the inside of the cup and the dish that the outside may become cleane.
27Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appeare unto men beautiful, but within are ful of dead mens bones, and al filthines. 28So you also outwardly indeed ″ appeare to men just: but inwardly you are ful of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
29Woe to you Scribes and Pharisees, Hypocrites: because you build the Prophets sepulchres, and ″ garnish the moniments of just men, 30and say: If we had been in our Fathers dayes, we had not been their felowes
- ↑ These phylacteries were peeces of parchement, wherein they wrote the ten commandements, and folded it, and caried it on their forehead before their eyes, imagining grosly and superstitiously, that so they fulfilled that which is said Deu. 6. They shal be immoveable before thine eyes. Hiero. in 23. Mat.
