Thus much of their _Phylacteries_: In the same verse is reproved the _inlarging of their borders_.[127] That which we read borders in the _Gospel_, is called, _Num. 15. 38._ ציצות _Tsitsith_, _Fringes_: and גדילים _Gedelim_, _Deut. 22. 10._ which word we likewise translate in that place, _Fringes_. They were in the fore-quoted places commanded, and our _Saviour Christ_ himself did wear them, _Luk. 8. 44._ The latter Hebrew word signifieth a _large Fringe_, which agravateth the superstition of the _Pharisees_, in making their Fringes _larger_, when the Law had allowed them _large_. This literal exposition I take to be most agreeable with the _Text_, though to _inlarge_ in _Greek_ and _Latine_[128] sometimes, signifieth to _boast, vaunt, or brag of a thing_; and in this sense it may very well fit a _Pharisee_. The reason of this command was, to put them in mind of the Commandments, _Numb. 15._ And for the furtherance of this duty,[129] they used sharp thorns in in their Fringes, that by the often pricking of the Thorn, whether they walked or sate still, they might be the more mindful of the Commandments.
[128] _Τὸ μεγαλύνεσθαι, apud Euripidem in Bacchis, valet, Magnifice jactare, Efferre. Magnificare apud Varronem & Plinium eadem significatione usurpatur, Theodor. Beza in Mat. 23._
There were[130] seven sorts of _Pharises_. 1. _Pharisæus Sichemita._ He turned _Pharisee_ for gain, as the _Sichemites_ suffered themselves to be circumcised.
2. _Pharisæus truncatus_, so called, as if he had no feet, because he would scarce lift them from the ground when he walked, to cause the greater opinion of his meditation.
3. _Pharisæus inpingens._ He would shut his eyes when he walked abroad, to avoid the sight of Women, in so much that he often dash’d his head against the walls, that the blood gush’d out.
4. _Pharisæus, Quid debeo facere, & faciam illud._ He was wont to say, _What ought I to do? and I will do it._ Of this sort seemeth the man in the _Gospel_ to have been, who came unto _Christ_, saying, _Good Master, what shall I do? &c._ and at last replyed, _All these I have done from my youth upward_, _Luke 18._
5. _Pharisæus mortarius_; so called because he wore a hat in manner of a deep _Mortar_, such as they use to bray spice in, in so much that he could not look upward, nor of either side; onely downward on the ground, and forward or forthright.