θελόντων. In classical Greek this would rather have been expressed by φιλούντων, but in Hellenistic Greek θέλειν τι = delectarire, Winer, p. 587.

περιπατεῖν ἐν στολαῖς. With special conspicuousness of fringes, Numbers 15:38-40. “The supreme tribunal,” said R. Nachman, “will duly punish hypocrites who wrap their talliths round them to appear, what they are not, true Pharisees.”

ἀσπασμούς. See on Luke 11:43; Videri quam esse was their secret rule.

πρωτοκαθεδρίας. See Luke 14:17.

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