"O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?/Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance"
John was anointed before birth which we can understand as the case of being foreknown by God in his Son. St Paul speaks of being apprehended"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."(Ph.3:12). "That I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended" when followed upon places you entirely outside the generation which here is compared to vipers and of adulterers. It speaks of the word as a good seed.
In the Parable of the Sower we have several kinds of heart, and from each what the word produces is quite different. "But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold." (13:8) John was apprehended for clearing the way, before the Advent of the Son."Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." Instead what do we find the Pharisees and Sadducees doing? They were at every turn putting stumbling blocks and tempting him in order to catch the Son of man , so they may discredit him. "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven."(16:1). He pointed what drove them to seek one. He dubbed them "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. It was similar with John who called them out as generation of vipers. What is the quality of vipers? They are cannibals and from the Parable of the Sower they are the wicked one. "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart."
"O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?/Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance"
John was anointed before birth which we can understand as the case of being foreknown by God in his Son. St Paul speaks of being apprehended"Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus."(Ph.3:12). "That I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended" when followed upon places you entirely outside the generation which here is compared to vipers and of adulterers. It speaks of the word as a good seed.
In the Parable of the Sower we have several kinds of heart, and from each what the word produces is quite different. "But other fell into good ground, and brought forth fruit, some an hundredfold, some sixtyfold, some thirtyfold." (13:8) John was apprehended for clearing the way, before the Advent of the Son."Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight." Instead what do we find the Pharisees and Sadducees doing? They were at every turn putting stumbling blocks and tempting him in order to catch the Son of man , so they may discredit him. "The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven."(16:1). He pointed what drove them to seek one. He dubbed them "A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign. It was similar with John who called them out as generation of vipers. What is the quality of vipers? They are cannibals and from the Parable of the Sower they are the wicked one. "When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, then cometh the wicked one, and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart."
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