Friday, June 04, 2021

The Teachers Of The Law

 "As HE was teaching, HE also said to them, 'Beware of those teachers of the law, who enjoy walking around in long robes and being greeted in the marketplace; and who like to occupy reserved seats in the synagogues; and the first places at feasts.  They even devour the widow's and the orphan's goods, while making a show of long prayers.  How severe a sentence they will receive!'" - Mark 12:38-40 

(The teachers of the law were not bad persons.  They became teachers of religion because they were interested in religion, but as soon as the teacher stops trying to be a saint, he is only a weak person.  The very respect that people show teachers leads them to overlook in themselves many wrongs that in anybody else would be severely censured.)

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