Therefore you are witnesses unto yourselves, that you are the children of them who killed the prophets.
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Jerome
AD 420
By a most subtle syllogism He proves them to be the sons of murderers, while to gain good character and reputation with the people, they build the sepulchres of the Prophets whom their fathers put to death.
Though they speak not this in words, they proclaim it by their actions, inambitious and magnificent structures to their memory.