Matthew 3:7 Douay-Rheims

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?

John Chrysostom

A.D. 347–407 Patristic

By saying Every, he cuts off all privilege of nobility: as much as to say, Though thou be the son of Abraham, if thou abide fruitless thou shalt suffer the punishment.

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A.D. 407 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 3:7-10

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

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