John Trapp on Matthew 23:19

Verse 19. Ye fools and blinde] The second time so. For behold they have rejected the word of the Lord (yea the Word, the Lord Christ) and what wisdom was in them? Jer. 8. 9. True it is, they were accounted the only [illegible: 1 word] men: Where is the wise, 1 Cor. 1. [illegible: 1 word] is the Scribe? saith S. Paul. As if wise and Scribe were terms convertible. And for the Pharisees, they did so carry away the hearts of the people, that there was no holy man that was not termed a Pharisee, as we finde in their [illegible: 1 word]. And, [illegible: 1 word] the most straitest sect of our religion, I [illegible: 1 word] a Pharisee, saith Paul, Act. 26. 5. They were [illegible: 2 words], and did utterly out-shine and obscure those other sects of Sadduces and Essenes, the later whereof are not so much as mentioned in the Gospel: And yet we see what esteem Christ had of them, and what titles [illegible: 1 word] here bestows upon them: To teach us not to rest in [illegible: 2 words], nor to think it sufficient that others think well of [illegible: 1 word]. But let every man prove his own work, Galat. 6. 4. and know, that not he that commends himself, or is commended by others, is approved, but he whom the Lord [illegible: 1 word], 2 Cor. 10. 18.