Tertullian

“ Into the perception of this they neither entered themselves, even because they did not believe (for “unless ye believe, ye shall not understand”) ; nor did they permit others to enter, because they preferred to teach them for commandments even the doctrines of men. When, therefore, He reproached those who did not themselves enter in, and also shut the door against others, must He be regarded as a disparager of the law, or as a supporter of it? If a disparager, those who were hindering the law ought to have been pleased; if a supporter, He is no longer an enemy of the law. ”

“ He therefore said: “You wash the outside of the cup,” that is, the flesh, “but you do not cleanse your inside part,” [11] that is, the soul; adding: “Did not He that made the outside,” that is, the flesh, “also make the inward part,” that is to say, the soul?—by which assertion He expressly declared that to the same God belongs the cleansing of a man’s external and internal nature, both alike being in the power of Him who prefers mercy not only to man’s washing, [12] but even to sacrifice. ”

“ When, again, He upbraids those who caught at the uppermost places and the honour of public salutations, He only follows out the Creator’s course, [22] who calls ambitious persons of this character “rulers of Sodom,” [23] who forbids us “to put confidence even in princes,” [24] and pronounces him to be altogether wretched who places his confidence in man. ”