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“But (1) woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, play actors, that (2) you close the realm of the heavens to the sight of all people. For you neither enter yourselves nor do you allow those entering to enter. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, play actors, that (3) you travel across sea and land to make a single convert, and when he becomes a convert, you make him twice as much a child of the rubbish tip [Greek gehenna] as yourselves. Woe to you, (4) blind guides, saying, ‘He who would swear an oath by the sanctuary, it’s nothing, but he who would swear an oath by the gold of the sanctuary, he’s indebted.’ (4) Foolish and blind, because which is greater, the gold or the sanctuary that has made the gold holy? Again, ‘He who would swear an oath by the altar, it’s nothing, but he who would swear an oath by the gift that is on it, he’s indebted.’ (4) Blind, because which is greater, the gift or the altar that has made the gift holy? So whoever swears an oath by the altar is swearing an oath by it and by everything on it. And whoever swears an oath by the sanctuary is swearing an oath by it and by him who dwells in it. And whoever swears an oath by heaven is swearing an oath by the throne of God and by him who sits upon it.” Matthew 23: 13-22 |
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Sinner Syvret |