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 # They also devour widows' houses
 
-Here Jesus describes the scribes' cheating of widows and stealing of their houses as "devouring" their houses. Alternate translation: "They also cheat widows in order to steal their houses from them" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-metaphor]])
+"They also cheat widows in order to steal their houses from them" 
 
 # widows' houses
 
-The words "widows" and "houses" are synecdoches for helpless people and all of a person's important possessions, respectively. Alternate translation: "everything from helpless people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-synecdoche]])
+"everything from helpless people" 
 
 # These men will receive greater condemnation
 
-This can be stated in active form. Alternate translation: "God will certainly punish them with greater condemnation" or "God will certainly punish them severely" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-activepassive]])
+"God will certainly punish them with greater condemnation" or "God will certainly punish them severely" 
 
 # will receive greater condemnation
 
-The word "greater" implies a comparison. Here the comparison is to other men who are punished. Alternate translation: "will receive greater condemnation than other people" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/jit/figs-explicit]])
+"will receive greater condemnation than other people"