Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.
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Glossa Ordinaria
AD 1480
Interlin.: “Devour widows’ houses,” that is, your superstitions have this only aim, namely, to make a gain of the people that are put under you.
interlin.: Or, because “the servant that knew his Lords will and did it not, shall be beaten with many stripes.”