"Hypocrites are such who seem to and would be thought to be, what they are not; they are outwardly righteous before men, but inwardly very wicked; have a form of godliness, but are destitute of the power of it; pretend to much religion, and to be worshippers of God, when it is only in outward appearances; and not in reality, and sincerity: and such as these have been in the congregations of the righteous, in all ages." (John Gill)