70.  I am alarmed by the reproaches of the Pharisees, the conviction of the Scribes.  For it is disgraceful for us, who ought greatly surpass them, as we are bidden, if we desire the kingdom of heaven, to be found more deeply sunk in vice:  so that we deserve to be called serpents, a generation of vipers, and blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel, or sepulchres foul within, in spite of our external comeliness, or platters outwardly clean, and everything else, which they are, or which is laid to their charge.217    S. Matt. xxiii. 13 et seq.

Οʹ. Ἐμὲ δὲ φοβοῦσι καὶ ὀνειδιζόμενοι Φαρισαῖοι καὶ γραμματεῖς ἐλεγχόμενοι: ὧν αἰσχρὸν, εἰ πολὺ περιεῖναι δέον τὴν ἀρετὴν, ὡς διατετάγμεθα, εἴ τι δεοίμεθα τῆς τῶν οὐρανῶν βασιλείας, καὶ τὴν κακίαν φαινοίμεθα χείρους: ὥστε καὶ ὄφεις εἰκότως ἂν ἀκοῦσαι, καὶ γεννήματα ἐχιδνῶν, καὶ ὁδηγοὶ τυφλοὶ, τὸν κώνωπα διυλίζοντες, καὶ τὴν κάμηλον καταπίνοντες, καὶ τάφοι ῥυπαροὶ τὰ ἔνδον, μετ' εὐπρεπείας τῆς ἔξωθεν καὶ παροψίδες καθαραὶ τὸ φαινόμενον, καὶ τἄλλα ὅσα ἐκεῖνοι καὶ εἰσὶ καὶ ἀκούουσι.