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Luke 11:42

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over justice and the love of God: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

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Ambrose of Milan

AD 397

He also rebukes the arrogance and showy display of the Jews when they seek the first places at feasts. The sentence of condemnation is also pronounced on those who, skilled in law, are as “sepulchers that are not seen.” They cheat with their show and deceive with their practice, so that when they speak fair words outwardly, they are full of foulness within. Very many teachers do this when they demand from others what they themselves cannot imitate. They are tombs, as elsewhere it says, “Their throat is an open sepulcher.”

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