You blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
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Hilary of Poitiers
AD 368
He therefore is reproving those who, pursuing an ostentation of useless scrupulosity, neglected the discharge of useful morality. For it is the inside of the cup that is used; if that be foul, what profit is it to cleanse the outside? And therefore what is needed is purity of the inner conscience, that those things which are of the body may be clean without.
