Albert Barnes on Matthew 23:17
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Matthew23:17
The temple that sanctifieth the gold. To sanctify is to make holy. The gold had no holiness but what it derived from the temple. If in any other place, it would be no more holy than any other gold. It was foolish, then, to suppose that that was more holy than the temple from which it received all the sanctity which it possessed.
(e) "ye fools and blind" Psa 94:8
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