Foolish men! Did not He who made the outside make the inside also?
»Blind fools! Why, which is greater? –the gold, or the Sanctuary which has made the gold holy?«
Blind Pharisee, first wash clean the inside of the cup or dish, and then the outside will be clean also.
»But God said to him,« `Foolish man, this night your life is demanded from you; and these preparations–for whom shall they be?'
»O dull-witted men,« He replied, »with minds so slow to believe all that the Prophets have spoken!
Foolish man! the seed you yourself sow has no life given to it unless it first dies;
Besides this, our earthly fathers used to discipline us and we treated them with respect, and shall we not be still more submissive to the Father of our spirits, and live?
