Matthew 23:23
Douay-Rheims
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and have left the weightier things of the law; judgment, and mercy, and faith. These things you ought to have done, and not to leave those undone.
Jerome
The camel I suppose to mean the weighty precepts, judgment, mercy, and faith; the gnat, the tithing of mint, anise, and cummin, and other valueless herbs. The greater of God’s commands we swallow and overlook, but shew our carelessness by a religious scrupulousness in little things which bring profit with them.
Source details
A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:23-24
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.