Mat 23:15, Rom 10:2, Gal 1:14 | JFB | e4.org | 15. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte —from heathenism. We have evidence of this in JOSEPHUS . and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves —condemned, for the hypocrisy he would learn to practice, both by the religion he left and that he embraced.

‏ Matthew 23:15

15. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte—from heathenism. We have evidence of this in JOSEPHUS.

and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves—condemned, for the hypocrisy he would learn to practice, both by the religion he left and that he embraced.

‏ Romans 10:2

2. For I bear them record—or, "witness," as he well could from his own sad experience.

that they have a zeal of—"for"

God, but not according to knowledge—(Compare Ac 22:3; 26:9-11; Ga 1:13, 14). He alludes to this well-meaning of his people, notwithstanding their spiritual blindness, not certainly to excuse their rejection of Christ and rage against His saints, but as some ground of hope regarding them. (See 1Ti 1:13).

‏ Galatians 1:14

14. profited—Greek, "I was becoming a proficient"; "I made progress."

above—beyond.

my equals—Greek, "Of mine own age, among my countrymen."

traditions of my fathers—namely, those of the Pharisees, Paul being "a Pharisee, and son of a Pharisee" (Ac 23:6; 26:5). "MY fathers," shows that it is not to be understood generally of the traditions of the nation.