Consent (συνευδοκειτε). Double compound (συν, ευ, δοκεω), to think well along with others, to give full approval. A late verb, sev…

Truly you bear witness that you allow.—The better manuscripts read, Truly are you witnesses, and you allow.

They pretended to have such regard for the holy men of the past that, being unable to honor them in person, they would set up monuments to their me…

St. Cyril of Alexandria: A rebuke that exalts the meek is generally hateful to the proud. Therefore, when our Savior was blami…

Some lavish tombs were built for royalty and others before and during the time of Christ. It was all very well for the experts in the law to build …

Truly ye bear witness, that ye allow the deeds of your
fathers
Or "ye bear witness, a…

We should all look to our hearts, that they may be cleansed and new-created; and while we attend to the great things of the law and of the gospel, …