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"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you 
hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish,
but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and
dish, and then the outside also will be clean."
Matthew 23:25-26

The Jerusalem Pharisee is not extinct. He has his 
true representative and descendant in our time. He 
still in spirit makes broad his phylactery. He has his 
trumpet sounded before him. He has his unctuous 
shibboleths. He is punctilious in creed and tradition. 
He refuses to speak to a Samaritan. 

Yet that man's inner life and home, as was the case 
with his ancient prototype, confute and confound his 
pretensions. There, he is often cold, cynical, selfish, 
moody, morose, imperious. He would keep all the 
world right, but he is himself like the sepulchres he 
whitewashes. It is outer garnish and no more. God 
save the Church, from such a travesty as this! Oh
for genuine, transparent, unmistakable reality!

"Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you 
hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which
look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are
full of dead men's bones and everything unclean.
In the same way, on the outside you appear to
people as righteous but on the inside you are full
of hypocrisy and wickedness." Matthew 23:27-28

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