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THE PRECEPTS OF JESUS.
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herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God :
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone. Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the
uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the
markets. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo
•crites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the
men that walk over them are not aware of them. Then
answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
thus saying, thou reproachest us also. And he said,
Woe unto you also,j>r lawyers! For ye lade men with
burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch
not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto
you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that
ye allow the deeds of your fathers : for they indeed
killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore
also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets
and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and perse-
cute : that the blood of all the prophets, which was
shed from the foundation of the world, may be required
of this generation ; from the blood of Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar
and the temple : verily I say unto you, it shall be
required of this generation. Woe unto you, lawyers !
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge : ye
entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering
in, ye hindered. >
* In the mean time, when there were gathered
together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch
that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto
his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the
> ° Luke, chap. xii. I.
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herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God :
these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other
undone. Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the
uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the
markets. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypo
•crites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the
men that walk over them are not aware of them. Then
answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
thus saying, thou reproachest us also. And he said,
Woe unto you also,j>r lawyers! For ye lade men with
burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch
not the burdens with one of your fingers. Woe unto
you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and
your fathers killed them. Truly ye bear witness that
ye allow the deeds of your fathers : for they indeed
killed them, and ye build their sepulchres. Therefore
also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets
and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and perse-
cute : that the blood of all the prophets, which was
shed from the foundation of the world, may be required
of this generation ; from the blood of Abel unto the
blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar
and the temple : verily I say unto you, it shall be
required of this generation. Woe unto you, lawyers !
for ye have taken away the key of knowledge : ye
entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering
in, ye hindered. >
* In the mean time, when there were gathered
together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch
that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto
his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the
> ° Luke, chap. xii. I.