The Syriac word means on the pretext of as well as because of (cf. § 50, 11, note).
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English translation and editorial credits: Hope Waddell Hogg (translator and reviser), Mary Elizabeth Hogg (joint translator and reference index), Allan Menzies (volume editor).
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[32] And in the course of his teaching he said unto them, Guard yourselves from the [33] scribes, who desire to walk in robes, and love salutation in the marketplaces, and sitting in the highest places of the synagogues, and at feasts in the highest parts of [34] the rooms: and they broaden their amulets, and lengthen the cords of their cloaks, [35] and love that they should be called by men, My master, and devour widows’ houses, because of their prolonging their prayers; these then shall receive greater judgement. [36] But ye, be ye not called masters: for your master is one; all ye are brethren. [37] Call not then to yourselves any one father on earth: for your Father is one, who is [38] in heaven. And be not called directors: for your director is one, even the Messiah. [39, 40] He that is great among you shall be unto you a minister. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and whosoever shall abase himself shall be exalted.
This word is not spelled in the ordinary way. Doubtless we should supply two diacritical points and read, with the Syriac versions, My master.
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[32] And in the course of his teaching he said unto them, Guard yourselves from the [33] scribes, who desire to walk in robes, and love salutation in the marketplaces, and sitting in the highest places of the synagogues, and at feasts in the highest parts of [34] the rooms: and they broaden their amulets, and lengthen the cords of their cloaks, [35] and love that they should be called by men, My master, and devour widows’ houses, because of their prolonging their prayers; these then shall receive greater judgement. [36] But ye, be ye not called masters: for your master is one; all ye are brethren. [37] Call not then to yourselves any one father on earth: for your Father is one, who is [38] in heaven. And be not called directors: for your director is one, even the Messiah. [39, 40] He that is great among you shall be unto you a minister. Whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and whosoever shall abase himself shall be exalted.
Perhaps this reading is due to the easy confusion of d and r in Syriac; but it might also conceivably be a corruption of the Arabic word in the next clause. It occurs also in the text of Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
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[45] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass land and sea to draw one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him a son of hell twice as much as yourselves.
Doubtless the Arabic word should be read as a monosyllable, as in Ibn-at-Tayyib’s Commentary.
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[45] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass land and sea to draw one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him a son of hell twice as much as yourselves.
The Arabic word as printed gives no suitable sense. Either the last radical has been omitted, or the last two radicals have exchanged places.
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[53] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye tithe mint and rue and dill and cummin and all herbs, and ye leave the important matters of the law, judgement, and mercy, and faith, and the love of God: this ought ye to do, and [54] not to leave that undone. Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow camels.
Syriac, same as in § 40, 35; Arabic different.
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[42] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye devour widows’ houses, because of your prolonging your prayers: for this reason then ye shall receive greater judgement.
Adopting the reading of Borg. ms. (cf. next verse).
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[45] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye compass land and sea to draw one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him a son of hell twice as much as yourselves.
Matt. xxiii. 29a; Luke xi. 47b; Matt. xxiii. 29b.
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[61] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, which your fathers killed, and adorn the burying-places of the righteous, [62] and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers [63] with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore, behold, ye witness against [64] yourselves, that ye are the children of those that slew the prophets. And ye also, [65] ye fill up the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye children of vipers, where shall ye flee from the judgement of Gehenna?
Lit. boundary or limit.
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[61] Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, which your fathers killed, and adorn the burying-places of the righteous, [62] and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers [63] with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore, behold, ye witness against [64] yourselves, that ye are the children of those that slew the prophets. And ye also, [65] ye fill up the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye children of vipers, where shall ye flee from the judgement of Gehenna?