19Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Seven days thou shalt make an atonement for the altar, and sanctify it; and it shall be an altar most holy: whatsoever toucheth the altar shall be holy.
And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-33)In these verses we have eight woes levelled directly against the scribes and Pharisees by our Lord Jesus Christ, like so many claps of thunder, or flashes of lightning, from mount Sinai. Three woes are made to look very dreadful ( Rev. 8:13 ; 9:12 ); but here are eight woes, in opposition to the eight beatitudes, Matt. 5:3. The gospel has its woes as well as the law, and gospel curses are of all c…
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