[Officium]
Feria Tertia infra Hebdomadam II in Quadragesima

[Lectio1]
Evangélium szent Máté könyvéből
!Matt 23:1-12
Azon időben mondá Jézus a to:megnek e's tanítványainak: Az írástudók és a farizeusok Mózes tanítói székében ülnek. Tegyetek meg és tartsatok meg ezért mindent, amit mondanak nektek, de tetteikben ne kövessétek őket És így tovább.
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Homily by St Jerome, Priest (at Bethlehem.)
!Bk. iv. Comm. on Matth. xxiii.
Was there ever man g-entler and kinder than the Lord? The Pharisees tempted Him; their craft was confounded, and, in the words of the Psalmist, The arrows of babes have pierced them, (Ps. lxiii. 8,) and nevertheless, because of the dignity of their priesthood and name, He exhorteth the people to be subject to them, by doing according to their words, though not according to their works. By the words Moses' seat we are to understand the teaching of the law. Thus also must we mystically take, Sitteth in the seat of the scornful, (Ps. i. 1,) and likewise, overthrew the seats of them that sold doves, (Matth. xxi. 12,) to describe doctrine.