³凡他们所吩咐 你们 的，你们都要谨守 遵行 ；但 不 要 效法 他们的 行为 ；因为 他们能说 ，不能 行 。

³ Verse 3. All therefore whatsoever] That is, all those things

which they read out of the law and prophets, and all things which

they teach consistently with them. This must be our Lord's

meaning: he could not have desired them to do every thing, without

restriction, which the Jewish doctors taught; because himself

warns his disciples against their false teaching, and testifies

that they had made the word of God of none effect by their

traditions. See Mt 15:6, &c. Besides, as our Lord speaks here

in the past tense-whatsoever they HAVE commanded, οσαειπωσιν, he

may refer to the teaching of a former period, when they taught the

way of God in truth, or were much less corrupted than they were

now.