Matthew Poole and continuators on Luke 12:1

1 IN the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisie.

We read of such a caution given to the Disciples, Matth. 16.6. But that is not the same caution with this; there he compared their Doctrine to Leaven, for the aptness of it to infect others, here he compareth their Lives to the same thing▪ and for the same reason; this appeareth to be the same Sense of our Saviour here, because he saith their Leaven is Hypocrisy. There are none so like to do mischief to the better sort of People, [illegible: 1 word] those that under a Mask, and Exterior Di[illegible: 1 letter]guise of severity and strictness, indulge themselves in Corrupt Affections, and Vitious Inclinations.