Jerome, on Matt 3:7

“And seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them: Ye brood of vipers, who hath shewed you to flee from the wrath to come?”

“He intimates God’s great power, who, as he made all things out of nothing, can make men out of the hardest stone.”

Imported from an open dataset — not yet checked against the printed edition.