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Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.comJamieson Fausset Brown Commentary - Matthew 23:14 - 23:14
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Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, etc. - Taking advantage of the helpless condition and confiding character of “widows,” they contrived to obtain possession of their property, while by their “long prayers” they made them believe they were raised far above “filthy lucre.” So much “the greater damnation” awaits them. What a lifelike description of the Romish clergy, the true successors of those scribes!