for ye devour] Mark 12:40. Luke 20. 47. widows houses] Ye oppresse widows, which have none to help them, and leave them not so much as an house to dwell in. for a pretence make long prayer] Ye make long prayers, that widows, thinking you to be very conscientious men, may trust you with their means, which you defraud them of: or, by tricks ye beguil them of their means, and yet labour to be thought godly men, because ye make long prayers: so ye wrong both God and them.