Matthew 23:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them - "touch them not" (Luke 11:46),

With one of their fingers - referring not so much to the irksomeness of the legal rites, though they were irksome enough (Acts 15:10); as to the heartless rigour with which they were enforced, and by men of shameless inconsistency.

Matthew 23:4

4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.#rl