Even so ye also ... — A like image meets us in the words in which one of the Maccabean princes, Alexander Jannæus, warned his wife on his death-bed to beware of “men who were painted Pharisees, expecting the reward of Phinehas, while their works were the works of Zimri.”
Iniquity. — Better, lawlessness — a reckless disregard of the very Law of which they professed to be the interpreters.