1 Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,
Tunc Jesus locutus est ad turbas, et ad discipulos suos,
2 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.
dicens : Super cathedram Moysi sederunt scribae et pharisaei.
3 All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.
Omnia ergo quaecumque dixerint vobis, servate, et facite : secundum opera vero eorum nolite facere : dicunt enim, et non faciunt.
4 For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them.
Alligant enim onera gravia, et importabilia, et imponunt in humeros hominum : digito autem suo nolunt ea movere.
5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes.
Omnia vero opera sua faciunt ut videantur ab hominibus : dilatant enim phylacteria sua, et magnificant fimbrias.
6 And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues,
Amant autem primos recubitus in coenis, et primas cathedras in synagogis,
7 And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.
et salutationes in foro, et vocari ab hominibus Rabbi.
8 But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren.
Vos autem nolite vocari Rabbi : unus est enim magister vester, omnes autem vos fratres estis.
9 And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven.
Et patrem nolite vocare vobis super terram : unus est enim pater vester qui in caelis est.
10 Neither be ye called masters; for one is your master, Christ.
Nec vocemini magistri : quia magister vester unus est, Christus.
11 He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant.
Qui major est vestrum, erit minister vester.
12 And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
Qui autem se exaltaverit, humiliabitur : et qui se humiliaverit, exaltabitur.
[5] "Phylacteries": that is, parchments, on which they wrote the ten commandments, and carried them on their foreheads before their eyes: which the Pharisees affected to wear broader than other men; so to seem more zealous for the law.[9] "Call none your father upon earth": Neither be ye called masters. The meaning is that our Father in heaven is incomparably more to be regarded, than any father upon earth: and no master to be followed, who would lead us away from Christ. But this does not hinder but that we are by the law of God to have a due respect both for our parents and spiritual fathers, (1 Cor. 4. 15) and for our masters and teachers.
