"Beware of the scribes! They like to walk about in long robes, they are fond of getting saluted in the market-places, of securing the front seats in the synagogues and the best places at banquets;

and they swarmed over the broad earth, encircling the leaguer of the saints and the beloved City; but fire descended from heaven and consumed them,

Besides, all they do is done to catch the notice of men; they make their phylacteries broad, they wear large tassels,

Enter by the narrow gate: for [the gate] is broad and the road is wide that leads to destruction, and many enter that way.

Many, I tell you, will come from east and west and take their places beside Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the Realm of heaven,