Matthew Poole and continuators on Matthew 23:33

33 Ye serpents, ye generation of Vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

You (saith our Lord) confess that you are lineally descended from those who killed the Prophets: You have not only their Blood communicated to you, but their Spirit, your Behaviours and Carriages towards me, and my Disciples have witnessed, and will yet further testifie, that you are the Children of those who killed the Prophets in a Moral, as well as a natural Sense; you inherit the same Spirit, and are full of the same Malice and Rancor. They killed them, and you bury them: Seeing there is no reclaiming you, Go you on, Fill up the measure of your Fathers sins. There is something more to be added, to make the Iniquity of this Nation full; you are a Company of Serpents, Vipers, that cannot escape the Damnation of Hell.

Marginal references: [illegible: 2 letters]ap 3.7.