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The grand obstacle to the salvation of the scribes and Pharisees was their pride, vanity and self-love. They lived on each other's praise. If they had acknowledged Christ as the only good teacher, they must have given up the good opinion of the multitude and they chose rather to lose their souls than to forfeit their reputation among men!

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Adam Clarke
Died: 1832
Died: August 26
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They who pray not, know nothing of God, and know nothing of the state of their own souls.
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