Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
devour, etc.—taking advantage of their helpless condition and confiding character, to obtain possession of their property, while by their "long prayers" they made them believe they were raised far above "filthy lucre." So much "the greater damnation" awaits them. What a lifelike description of the Romish clergy, the true successors of "the scribes!"
Beware, etc.—(See on Matthew 23:5; and Luke 14:7).
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Luke 20:47:
Matthew 23:1
Luke 20:41
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