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The tombs which appear not (ta mnēneia ta adēla). These hidden graves would give ceremonial defilement for seven days (Num 19:16). Hence they were usually whitewashed as a warning. So in Mat 23:27 the Pharisees are called “whited sepulchres.” Men do not know how rotten they are. The word adēlos (a privative and dēlos, apparent or plain) occurs in the N.T. only here and 1Co 14:8, though an old and common word.
Here men walking around (peripatountes) walk over the tombs without knowing it. These three woes cut to the quick and evidently made the Pharisees wince.