The Pharisees murmured, saying, This man receiveth sinners, and eateth with them.
Ah, let him perish in his harsh protests
Who sinners checks to be the Saviour's guests!
Sinners do entertain Christ as a guest:
They spread the table, but He is the feast. G. & B.
CXXVIII.
In trabem Pharisaicam. Matt. vii. 3.
Cedant, quae, rerum si quid tenue atque minutum est,
Posse acie certa figere, vitra dabunt.
Artis opus mirae! Pharisaeo en optica trabs est,
Ipsum, vera loquor, qua videt ille nihil.
On the beam of the Pharisee.
Grant you can fix upon a needle's end
Each smallest object microscopes will lend.
Rare beam to look through has the Pharisee,
Whereby, in sooth, nothing itself sees he! R. Wi.
CXXIX.
Constituerunt ut si quis confiteretur eum esse Christum, synagoga moveretur. Joan. ix. 22.