False prophets (των ψευδοπροφητων). There were false prophets in the time of the Old Testament prophets. Jesus will predict "false…

False prophets. The word prophet originally means one who foretells future events. As prophets, however, were commonly regarded as public …

Beware of false prophets—The sequence here is subtle. How was the narrow way to be found? Who would act as a guide? Many would off…

And many there be which go in thereat: because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find i…

Pseudo-Chrysostom: The Lord had previously commanded His Apostles not to perform their alms, prayers, and fastings befo…

Jesus foresaw the continued existence of his newly formed community for a sustained period. He was doubtless steeped in the OT reports of earlier f…

But beware of false prophets: these words were intended to teach that the Church would be exposed to various deceptions, and that conseque…

Beware of false prophets
Or false teachers; for not such who pretended to foretell things to come, but such who set …

Nothing prevents people so much from entering the strait gate, and becoming true followers of Christ, as the carnal, soothing, flattering doctrines…

He gives precautions concerning those against whom one should be on guard. Now, they are described by their profe ion as prophets.