Matthew 23:14
Douay-Rheims
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment.
John Chrysostom (attributed)
First, for that ye are wicked, and then because ye put on the cloak of sanctity. Your covetousness you dress up in the colour of religion, and use God’s arms in the Devil’s service, that iniquity may be loved while it is thought to be piety.
Source details
as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:14
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.