Fathers

Commentary on Matthew, Series · §3

Whitewashed tombs — simulated justice is dead

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you are like whitewashed tombs — fair outside, full of dead bones within. So you appear righteous to people, yet inside are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Every pretended justice is a dead justice.

Latin

Vae vobis Scribae et Pharisaei hypocritae, quia similes estis sepulcris dealbatis, quae a foris parent speciosa, intus plena ossibus mortuorum. Sic et vos a foris paretis justi, intus pleni hypocrisi et iniquitate. Omnis justitia simulata mortua justitia est.

About this text

Origen’s Commentary on Matthew, Commentariorum Series (Latin). Complete on this page: §§1–12 (SERIES closeout).

English follows PG 13 (Migne) Latin Series. Heine was not used as wording. This page is Series §§1–12 (SERIES closeout).

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  • Copy-text PG 13 (Migne) — Latin Series (Latin · Series §§1–12)

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