"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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