spent whole nights studying the books of Moses, and whole days instructing the people in their duties to God, their neighbor, and themselves. And what the Scribes taught, the Pharisees enforced by word and example. They gave liberal alms, prayed for hours daily, and fasted twice a week. Well might Christ's followers have regarded them as models of virtue — and yet they were anything but models. For their teaching as well as their practice, though true to the letter, fell far short of the spirit of the law. With them "Thou shalt not kill," meant simply: "Thou shalt not forfeit the esteem of men, or risk a shameful death on the gallows by an open act of murder. Anger, hate, contempt, personal abuse — all these you may freely indulge, but he who actually kills and he only, shall be in danger of the judgment." Such was their teaching and such, too, their practice. They were rigid Sabbatarians, as we have seen, and, in general, great sticklers for the exact outward observance of God's laws, but within, as Christ tells us, they were full of rapine and iniquity. And hence, though they hated and despised and reviled Our Lord, they made no open attempt to kill Him, but only underhand, as if through zeal for the sanctification of the Sabbath. Thus did they keep the fifth commandment, and we, my friends, unless we keep it better than they, we shall never enter into the kingdom of heaven.
How then should we keep it? " But I say to you," says Our Lord, "that whosoever is angry with his brother shall be in danger of the judgment; and who-
