Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
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Gill's Exposition
And he called unto him, his disciples,.... Who were at some little distance from him, he having finished his discourses:
and saith unto them, verily I say unto you: a way of speaking he often used,…
Barnes' Notes
Which devour widows’ houses - Which devour the families of widows, or the means of supporting their families. This they did under pretence of counseling them in the knowledge of the law and in the…
Here, I. Christ shows the people how weak and defective the scribes were in their preaching, and how unable to solve the difficulties that occurred in the scriptures of the Old Testament, which they…
Cambridge Bible
devour widows" houses as guardians and administrators of their property
greater damnation "pei taken longe dom," Wyclif. The word denotes "judgment," "punishment." The verb from which it comes denotes…
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