O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
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Theophylact of Ochrid
AD 1107
Look, He says, you who are evil trees bear evil fruit when you speak ill of Me. And I also, if I were evil, would bring forth evil fruit and not these miracles. He calls them "brood of vipers" because they boasted of Abraham. He shows that they are not of Abraham, but of ancestors worthy of their own wickedness.
