NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 11:43

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43

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

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Verse 43. Salutations in the market-place, and so forth Such as wish to be saluted, and have the first places, that they may appear great, are likened to sepulchres, which are covered externally with ornaments, but are filled inwardly with rottenness. S. Cyril ex D. Thoma.

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