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He said therefore to the multitudes who went out to be baptized by him, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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Verse 7. This saint of the desert, seeing all the inhabitants of Palestine surrounding and admiring him, was not elated with the honour, but openly and severely rebuked them. Saint John Chrysostom hom. xi on S. Matt.—According to S. Matt. the Baptist addressed these words principally to the Pharisees and Sadducees, there and then present.
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