The time has come. As a pungent balm have I put you in the eyes of some nations that they too may see their hypocrisy.
Woe to them, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ Blind fools; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Woe to them. For they travel around the nations to make one proselyte; and when one becomes, they make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as themselves. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Woe to them, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’ Blind fools; for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Woe to them. For they travel around the nations to make one proselyte; and when one becomes, they make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as themselves. Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
