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Matthew 23:8-10
1599 Geneva Bible
Matthew 23:8-10
1599 Geneva Bible
8 (A)[a]But be not ye [b]called, Rabbi: for [c]one is your doctor, to wit, Christ, and all ye are brethren.
9 And (B)call no man your [d]father upon the earth: for there is but one, your father which is in heaven.
10 Be not called [e]doctors: for one is your doctor, even Christ.
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- Matthew 23:8 Modesty is a singular ornament of God’s minsters.
- Matthew 23:8 Seek not ambitiously after it: for our Lord doth not forbid us to give the Magistrate and our Masters the honor that is due to them, Augustine de sermone verbi Domine ex, Matt. 11.
- Matthew 23:8 He seemeth to allude to a place of Isaiah, chapter 54:13, and Jer. 31:34.
- Matthew 23:9 He shooteth at a fashion which the Jews used, for they called the Rabbis, our fathers.
- Matthew 23:10 It seemeth that the Scribes did very greedily hunt after such titles, whom verse 16 he calleth blind guides.
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