The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 6Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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Page 73 - Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
Page 74 - Moses' seat. All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.
Page 75 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Page 75 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Page 74 - But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments...
Page 77 - The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law he ought to die, because he made himself the Son of God.
Page 359 - Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or knowing it pursue.
Page 74 - Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.
Page 74 - Now from the fig tree learn her parable : when her branch is now become tender, and putteth forth its leaves, ye know that the summer is nigh ; even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.
Page 293 - Without a sign his sword the brave man draws, And asks no omen but his country's cause.