John Trapp on Matthew 23:31

Verse 31. Wherefore ye be witnesses, &c.] Here our Saviour casts all their cost in their teeth, as if thereby [illegible: 1 word] had meant to commend [illegible: 1 word] fathers curelty in killing the Prophets, sith they [illegible: 1 word] it, by persecuting him and his to the death. [illegible: 1 word] is commonly hereditary, and runs in the bloud: and (as we use to say of [illegible: 1 word]) The older it is, the stronger; as in the deadly feud of Scotland, taken away by K. [illegible: 1 word].