Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who has warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
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. (St. Chrysostom, hom. xi. on S. Matt)
According to St. Matthew, the Baptist addressed these words principally to the Pharisees and Sadducees, there and then present.
