NT References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

Matthew 23:27

Dialogue of Justin

s; and do so in a low and sordid manner, while they never venture either to speak of or to expound the points which are great and worthy of investigation, or command you to give no audience to us while we expound them, and to come not into conversation with us; will they not deserve to hear what our Lord Jesus Christ said to them: `Whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outward, and within are full of dead men's bones; which pay tithe of mint, and swallow a camel: ye blind guides!'[425]

Irenaeus Against Heresies Book IV

For the sepulchre appears beautiful outside, but within it is full of dead men's bones, and all uncleanness; even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of wickedness and hypocrisy."[243]

Tertullian On the Resurrection of the Flesh

Wherefore that also must be held to be the resurrection, when a man is reanimated by access to the truth, and having dispersed the death of ignorance, and being endowed with new life by God, has burst forth from the sepulchre of the old man, even as the Lord likened the scribes and Pharisees to "whited sepulchres."[111]

Hippolytus Refutation of All Heresies Book V

This, he says, is what has been declared, "Ye are whited sepulchres, full," he says, "of dead men's bones within,"[91]

Archelaus Acts of the Disputation with the Heresiarch Manes

or be likened to whited sepulchres.[482]

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Matthew 23:27

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