...spiritual kingdom. Insomuch, that the Baptist said to the Pharisees, as well as to the Sadducees, " O generation of vipers, who hath warned " you to flee...the wrath to come ? Bring " forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : and " think not to say within yourselves, We have " Abraham to our father1."...

...the ron-,;h ways shalt be made smooth ; 6 And ail riesh shall see the salvation of God. 7 Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized...of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ": 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin no...

...ii. 7. " But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees, come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...the wrath to come ? Bring forth, therefore, fruits meet for repentance. And think not to say within yourselves, we have Abraham to our father ; for 1...

...penitents ; for, " when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? bring forth fruits meet for repentance." We may deduce from this passage a most important lesson. We may learn...

...that of the prophet, being taken from the Greek translation, an<J not from the Hebrew. 7. Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, or, as if would be better rendered ', " O brood of vipers " who hath warned you to flee fiom the wrath...

...might be raised to a conceit of some extraordinary matter, both in his person and message. III. 7, 8 O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...from the wrath to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance : O ye Pharisees and Saducees, who are rather venomous serpents than men, so full...

...baptized by him, " O ofFspringf of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the 8 anger winch is about to come ? Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance ; and begin not to say within yourselves, ' Abraham isJ our father:' for I say unto you, that of these stones God is able...

...shall see the salva- 4{Jysrl{J1tion of God. 1 • Then said he to the multitude that came oh-"-wforth to speak of drinking out of the royal cap, and washing in the royal to flee from the wrath to come ? 8 Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not...

...their sins. But when he saw many of the Pharisees1 and Sadduces come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee...therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able of these...

...addressed himself to those who had come to his baptism, and who had confessed their sins in Jordan. " O generation of vipers, who hath " warned you to flee from the wrath to come ? " Bring forth fruits meet for repentance." By which he, plainly, insinuated that without these fruits, their repentance...