Matthew 23:33 Douay-Rheims

You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

Jerome

c. A.D. 347–420 Patristic

The rule of the Scriptures is only to know two generations, one of good the other of bad. Of the generation of the good it is said, The generation of the righteous shall be blessed. (Ps. 112:2.) And of the bad it is said in the present passage, Generation of vipers. These then, because they did against the Apostles like things as Cain and Joas, are described as of one generation.

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A.D. 420 · as excerpted in the Catena Aurea on Matthew 23:32-36

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

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