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Mat_23:27 f. The graves were whitewashed with lime ( κονία ) every year on the 15th of Adar (a custom which Rabbinical writers trace to Eze_39:15), not for the purpose of ornamenting them, but in order to render them so conspicuous as to prevent any one defiling himself (Num_19:16) by coming into contact with them. For the passages from Rabbinical writers, see Lightfoot, Schoettgen, and Wetstein. A kind of ornamental appearance was thus imparted to the graves. In Luk_11:44, the illustration is of a totally different character.
ὑποκρίς . κ . ἀνομ .] (immorality): both as representing their disposition. Thus, morally speaking, they were τάφοι ἔμψυχοι , Lucian, D. M. vi. 2.