Verses 1-3
I. The warning against the hypocrisy of the Pharisees: the judgment day will expose Luke 2:1-3.
Unto his disciples first of all The discourse alternates (sometimes doubtfully to those who heard it) between the twelve and the multitudes. But even those parts which were ostensibly addressed to one, had a real application to the other, and were doubtless uttered in the hearing of both.
The leaven The deceitful and treacherous doctrines spreading and impregnating the lump, like leaven.
Of the Pharisees With whom the contest is now intense, and against whom, in their own persons, he had lately uttered a solemn denunciation at the close of the last chapter.
Hypocrisy In holding, from self-interest, to a system which they did not truly believe; in rejecting Christ contrary to their own conscience; in pretending to a ritual purity while indulging in all unrighteousness.
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