Matthew 23:25
Douay-Rheims
Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.
Hilary of Poitiers
He therefore is reproving those who, pursuing an ostentation of useless scrupulosity, neglected the discharge of useful morality. For it is the inside of the cup that is used; if that be foul, what profit is it to cleanse the outside? And therefore what is needed is purity of the inner conscience, that those things which are of the body may be clean without.
Source details
A.D. 367 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:25-26
Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.