Matthew Poole and continuators on Mark 12:40

40 Which devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; These shall receive greater damnation.

See the Notes on Matth. 23.5. and v. 14. The more Men and Women want of Real worth and value, the more they seek themselves a Reputation from their Habits, either the Gravity, or the Riches and Gaudery of them, and the more they Court Titles of Honour and Dignity, and affect External respect. Whereas Nobler Souls despise these things, being like Pictures well drawn, which need no Superscription to tell Men what or whose they are. Good Men are satisfyed from themselves, and as not careless of their Reputation, so neither careful who Men say that they are. But these Verses are more fully Discoursed on Matth. 23. to which I refer the Reader for Satisfaction.

Marginal references: Luke 20.47.