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Mat 23:15. Περιάγετε, κ.τ.λ., ye compass, etc.) A proverbial expression. Ye compass, or go about, as Rabbis; see Mat 23:7.-ἕνα προσήλυτον, one proselyte) with great zeal, but little efficacy; so that you hardly obtain one.-υἱὸν Γεέννης, a child of hell) i.e. worthy of hell. Thus in Deu 25:2, בן הבות[999] is rendered by the LXX. ἌΞΙΟς ΠΛΗΓῶΝ, worthy of stripes.[1000]-διπλότερον, twofold more) on account of his greater hypocrisy,[1001] though he might have attained to a high rank among the people of God.
[999] Literally, “a son to be beaten.”-(I. B.)
[1000] E. V. “Worthy to be beaten.”-(I. B.)
[1001] Which he adopts from his teachers, independently of and exceeding his heathen corruptions, which he has not laid aside.-V. g.