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Matt. 23 - NIV, NAB - in Dialogue of Justin

He overthrew also the tables of the money-changers in the temple, and exclaimed, `Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye pay tithe of mint and rue, but do not observe the love of God and justice. Ye whited sepulchres! appearing beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones.'[43]

Matt. 23 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement II

"In like manner, also, during the last period of His teaching, He wages war against the scribes and Pharisees, charging them with evil deeds and unsound doctrine, and with hiding the key of knowledge which they had handed down to them from Moses, by which the gate of the heavenly kingdom might be opened.[25]

Matt. 23:1 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Monogamy

But further, if Christ reproves the scribes and Pharisees, sitting in the official chair of Moses, but not doing what they taught,[68]

Matt. 23:2 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For they bind heavy burdens, and lay them upon men's shoulders; but they themselves will not so much as move them with a finger."[144]

Matt. 23:2 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily III

But you have not inquired whose is the time of the kingdom, and whose is the seat of prophecy, though He Himself points out Himself, saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat; all things whatsoever they say to you, hear them."[7]

Matt. 23:2 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily III

For you are commanded even to honour the chair of Moses, and that although they who occupy it are accounted sinners.[75]

Matt. 23:3 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book II

But if any one be convicted as having done a wicked action, such a one not only hurts himself, but occasions the whole body of the Church and its doctrine to be blasphemed; as if we Christians did not practise those things that we declare to be good and honest, and we ourselves shall be reproached by the Lord, that "they say and do not."[47]

Matt. 23:3 - NIV, NAB - in The First Epistle of Clement Concerning Virginity

Let us, therefore, fear the judgment which awaits teachers. For a severe judgment will those teachers receive "who teach, but do not,"[109]

Matt. 23:4 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI

"[70]

Matt. 23:6 - NIV, NAB - in Shepherd of Hermas Vision Third

and ye be shut out with all your goods beyond the gate of the tower. Wherefore I now say to you who preside over the Church and love the first seats,[40]

Matt. 23:6 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Gospel according to Matthew: "They love the first place of reclining at feasts, and the chief seat in the synagogues, and salutations in the market, and to be called of men Rabbi. But call not ye Rabbi, for One is your Master."[400]

Matt. 23:6 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

and while devoting great care to the things which were external, they overlooked those which bore upon the salvation of the soul. For they also had respect to "greetings in the market-place,"[170]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book VI

trains and perfects; whence it is rightly said, "Call no man your teacher on earth."[107]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Veiling of Virgins

So, too, righteousness-for the God of righteousness and of creation is the same-was first in a rudimentary state, having a natural fear of God: from that stage it advanced, through the Law and the Prophets, to infancy; from that stage it passed, through the Gospel, to the fervour of youth: now, through the Paraclete, it is settling into maturity. He will be, after Christ, the only one to be called and revered as Master;[8]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Monogamy

Therefore a wife, when her husband is dead, will not marry; for if she marry, she will of course be marrying (his) brother: for "all we are brethren."[51]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

As teachers (Christ alone doth all things teach[197]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

How, then, is it true according to the Scriptures, there is one Lord? And Christ is called the "one Master."[281]

Matt. 23:8 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on John Book I

But to this we answer that it happens not unfrequently in Scripture when two or more persons or things are named by the same name, the name attaches itself most significantly to one of those things or persons. Thus the Saviour says,[21]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

Jesus, therefore, will be to them the author and teacher of such transgression, inasmuch as He commanded that one Being should be called Father,[10]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book II

But not even he preserved the dignity suited to the efficient cause, describing as he did certain silly vortices, together with the inertia and even foolishness of Mind. Wherefore also the Word says, "Call no man master on earth."[30]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

non dixit ad distinctionera alicujus alius sacculi, sed perinde ac si diceret: Qui in hoc nati sunt saeculo, cum per generationera sint filii, et gighunt et gignuntur; quoniam non absque generatione hanc quis vitam praetergreditur: sed haec generario, quae similem suscipit interitum, non amplius competit ei qui ab hac vita est separatus. "Unus est ergo Pater noster, qui est in coelis: "[159]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book III

sed is ipse quoque Pater est omnium per creationera. "Ne vocaveritis ergo, inquit, vobis patrein super terrain."[160]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Repentance

. Who is that father to be understood by us to be? God, surely: no one is so truly a Father;[83]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Prayer

However, our Lord very frequently proclaimed God as a Father to us; nay, even gave a precept "that we call no one on earth father, but the Father whom we have in the heavens:[10]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Monogamy

To Abraham, in fine, they appeal; prohibited though they are to acknowledge any other father than God.[30]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise IV On the Lord's Prayer

Also the Lord in His Gospel has bidden us to call "no man our father upon earth, because there is to us one Father, who is in heaven."[25]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XI Exhortation to Martyrdom Addressed to Fortunatus

For martyrs who witness themselves as the sons of God in suffering are now no more counted as of any father but God, as in the Gospel the Lord teaches, saying, "Call no man your father upon earth; for one is your Father, which is in heaven."[94]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Excerpts of Theodotus

"Call no man, therefore, father to yourselves on earth."[37]

Matt. 23:9 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement VIII

, when we are commanded to call no man father upon earth? "[7]

Matt. 23:12 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book III

After this, not understanding how it has been said that "every one who exalted himself shall be abased; "[193]

Matt. 23:12 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise Against the Heretic Novatian by an Anonymous Bishop

Hast thou not read, "Whoso exalteth himself shall be humbled? "[43]

Matt. 23:13 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

exposition of the Scriptures, but believe the bare letter, and, vindicate it, that they call themselves scribes. And so one will interpret the words, "Woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites,"[66]

Matt. 23:15 - NIV, NAB - in Dialogue of Justin

For Christ would have borne witness even to them; but now you are become twofold more the children of hell, as He said Himself.[471]

Matt. 23:16 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book V

For if our Master charged us not to swear by the true God, that our word might be firmer than an oath, nor by heaven itself, for that is a piece of heathen wickedness, nor by Jerusalem, nor by the sanctuary of God, nor the altar, nor the gift, nor the gilding of the altar, nor one's own head,[86]

Matt. 23:21 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Prayer

, at all events, are ever unclean, eternally dyed with the blood of the prophets, and of the Lord Himself; and on that account, as being hereditary culprits from their privity to their fathers' crimes,[87]

Matt. 23:23 - NIV, NAB - in Pope Anterus The Epistle

you these things in charge to hold them, lest, through the ignorance of some, that which is better and more profitable be avoided, and what is more profitless be taken up, even as we read in the holy Gospel: "Woe unto you, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel."[5]

Matt. 23:24 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book III

And that His disciples must suffer for His sake, He [implied when He] said to the Jews, "Behold, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify."[344]

Matt. 23:24 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

He shall also judge those who give rise to schisms, who are destitute of the love of God, and who look to their own special advantage rather than to the unity of the Church; and who for trifling reasons, or any kind of reason which occurs to them, cut in pieces and divide the great and glorious body of Christ, and so far as in them lies, [positively] destroy it,-men who prate of peace while they give rise to war, and do in truth strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.[483]

Matt. 23:25 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book III

And again He says to the same people, "Woe unto you! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but within are full of uncleanness. Cleanse first the inside of the cup, that the outside may be clean also."[83]

Matt. 23:25 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Prayer

from idolatry, and all the other blemishes which, conceived by the spirit, are effected by the operation of the hands. These are the true purities;[84]

Matt. 23:25 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

It is to them that Jesus addresses Himself when He says: "Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of uncleanness. Or know you not, that He that made that which is without, made that which is within also? "[168]

Matt. 23:25 - NIV, NAB - in Recognitions of Clement VI

To some therefore of them-not to all-He said, `Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye cleanse the outside of the cup and platter, but the inside is full of pollution. O blind Pharisees, first make clean what is within, and what is without shall be clean also.'[12]

Matt. 23:26 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

Now what else is it to "be at rest" than to forego purposed violence? And saying similar things to these men, He declares: "Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse that which is within the cup, that the outside may be clean also."[244]

Matt. 23:26 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On Repentance

bathed[57]

Matt. 23:27 - NIV, NAB - in Dialogue of Justin

s; and do so in a low and sordid manner, while they never venture either to speak of or to expound the points which are great and worthy of investigation, or command you to give no audience to us while we expound them, and to come not into conversation with us; will they not deserve to hear what our Lord Jesus Christ said to them: `Whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outward, and within are full of dead men's bones; which pay tithe of mint, and swallow a camel: ye blind guides!'[425]

Matt. 23:27 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For the sepulchre appears beautiful outside, but within it is full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness; even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of wickedness and hypocrisy."[243]

Matt. 23:27 - NIV, NAB - in Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

Wherefore that also must be held to be the resurrection, when a man is reanimated by access to the truth, and having dispersed the death of ignorance, and being endowed with new life by God, has burst forth from the sepulchre of the old man, even as the Lord likened the scribes and Pharisees to "whited sepulchres."[111]

Matt. 23:27 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

This, he says, is what has been declared, "Ye are whited sepulchres, full," he says, "of dead men's bones within,"[91]

Matt. 23:27 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

or be likened to whited sepulchres.[482]

Matt. 23:29 - NIV, NAB - in A Letter from Origen to Africanus

" And what follows is of the same tenor: "O Jerusalem; Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."[15]

Matt. 23:30 - NIV, NAB - in A Letter from Origen to Africanus

For they who build the tombs of the prophets and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, condemning the crimes their fathers committed against the righteous and the prophets, say, "If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets."[16]

Matt. 23:33 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

And therefore did the Lord term those whom He knew to be the offspring of men "a generation of vipers; "[644]

Matt. 23:34 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

And He called His disciples "scribes" and "teachers of the kingdom of heaven; "of whom also He elsewhere says to the Jews: "Behold, I send unto you wise men, and scribes, and teachers; and some of them ye shall kill, and persecute from city to city."[103]

Matt. 23:34 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Against Celsus Book III

And He promises to those who believe upon Him to send them wise men and scribes, saying, "Behold, I will send unto you wise men and scribes, and some of them they shall kill and crucify."[147]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians

I am one delivered over [to death], but the least of all those that have been cut off for the sake of Christ, "from the blood of righteous Abel"[90]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V

" In like manner, too, did the Lord say to those who should afterwards shed His blood, "All righteous blood shall be required which is shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zacharias the son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall come upon this generation."[118]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

And that the blood is the Word, is testified by the blood of Abel,[98]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Five Books in Reply to Marcion

Hers "just Abel"[122]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

but also over the righteous, because they refused to consent to it, and rather withstood it, by putting away from themselves the vices and concupiscence of lusts,-men like those who have arisen at times from Abel on to Zacharias;[268]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Peter of Alexandria Canonical Epistle

Together with whom, having sought to kill another infant that had been previously born, and not being able to find him, he slew the child's father Zacharias between the temple and the altar, the child having escaped with his mother Elisabeth.[58]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in The Protevangelium of James

And Zacharias was murdered about daybreak. And the sons of Israel did not know that he had been murdered.[53]

Matt. 23:35 - NIV, NAB - in Origen Commentary on Matthew Book X

for the expression, "They were sawn asunder," refers to Isaiah, just as the words, "They were slain with the sword," refer to Zacharias, who was slain "between the sanctuary and the altar,"[120]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

And, without using a parable, the Lord said to Jerusalem, `O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest those that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen gathereth her chickens trader her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house shall be left unto you desolate."[595]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

This expression [of our Lord], "How often would I have gathered thy children together, and thou wouldest not,"[597]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

In the same manner therefore the Lord, both showing His own goodness, and indicating that man is in his own free will and his own power, said to Jerusalem, "How often have I wished to gather thy children together, as a hen [gathereth] her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Wherefore your house shall be left unto you desolate."[615]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

And that He calls us chickens the Scripture testifies: "As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings."[29]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

Such is the Instructor in His admonitions, as when He says in the Gospel, "How often would I have gathered thy children, as a bird gathers her young ones under her wings, and ye would not!"[178]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria The Instructor Book I

For he that knows God, how does he persecute God's servants? Wherefore He says, "Your house is left desolate; for I say unto you, Henceforth ye shall not see Me, till ye shall say, Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord."[201]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

"Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children, as a hen her chickens!"[62]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

The expression, then, "How often," shows wisdom to be manifold; every mode of quantity and quality, it by all means saves some, both in time and in eternity. "For the Spirit of the Lord fills the earth."[63]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clement of Alexandria Stromata Book I

" For this is the end of foolish pleasure. Such, indeed, is the case. And when He says, "Be not much with a strange woman,"[64]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Cyprian Treatise XII Three Books of Testimonies Against the Jews

Also in the Gospel the Lord says: "Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not! Behold, your house shall be left unto you desolate."[42]

Matt. 23:37 - NIV, NAB - in Clementine Homily III

And vet He loved even those who hated Him, and wept over the unbelieving, and blessed those who slandered Him, and prayed for those who were enmity against Him.[9]

Matt. 23:38 - NIV, NAB - in Hippolytus Dogmatical and Historical Fragments

the temple made desolate? Was it on account of that ancient fabrication of the calf? Was it on account of the idolatry of the people? Was it for the blood of the prophets? Was it for the adultery and fornication of Israel? By no means, he says; for in all these transgressions they always found pardon open to them, and benignity; but it was because they killed the Son of their Benefactor, for He is coeternal with the Father. Whence He saith, "Father, let their temple be made desolate;[180]

Matt. 23:38 - NIV, NAB - in Methodius Oration Concerning Simeon and Anna

which plainly, in the revered Gospels, our Lord signified, when He said to the Jews, "Behold your house is left unto you desolate."[108]

Matt. 23:38 - NIV, NAB - in Constitutions of the Holy Apostles Book VI

Since, therefore, He has forsaken His people, He has also left His temple desolate, and rent the veil of the temple, and took from them the Holy Spirit; for says He, "Behold, your house is left unto you desolate."[35]

Matt. 23:42 - NIV, NAB - in A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity

For in the manner that as man He is of Abraham, so also as God He is before Abraham himself. And in the same manner as He is as man the "Son of David,"[72]

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