...David is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day," saith St. Peter, and : " Ye" build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous :" saith our Saviour. But in the natural there is no such distinction. It cannot be said, that this...

...is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day," saith St. Peter, and : " Yeh build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous :" saith our Saviour. But in the natural there is no such distinction. It cannot be said, that this...

...be pleaded for our Excufe. But this is much like thofe Jews, Matth. i}. 50. that faid , If ive bad been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been paw keys with them in tie blood of the prophets ; when yet they were acted by the lame Spirit. And...

...mention thefe things, would go as far as the Jews did, and fay : If we bad Jxen in the days nj nur fathers, we would not have been partakers -with them in the blood of thefe men. I can't imagine what they mean, who abet thefe practices, or mention them without a juft...

...Hypocrites 5 tew/e? ^ build the Tombs of the Prophets, and garnijb the Sepulchsrs of the Righteous, and fay, If we had been in the Days of our Fathers, -we -would not have been Partakers with them in the Elood of the Prophets. Wherefore ye be Witneffes unto your f elves i that ye are the Children of them...

...Jews, and faying within themfelves, as did thofe whom our Saviour defer ibes ; Matt, xxiii. 30; IfWe had been in the days of our Fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in Thefe things. But to every impenitent Sinner, in the prefent as well as in former times, the experience...

...were building the tombs of the prophets, and garnifling the fepulehres of the righteous, they faiif, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not havs been partaken -with them in the Mod blood of the prophets. And the interpreters that go this way,...

...ye h build the tombs of thö ProРВД, and gftrniih the fepulchres of the righteous, £o. And toy, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not nave been partakers with them in the blood of the Prophets. 3'- Wherefore ye be witnelTes unto your...

...the tombs of the prophets, and garniil.Kd the fepulchres of the righteous, faying, if we had lived in the days of our fathers we would not have been, partakers with them who killed the prophets;" notvmhftanding they were faft filling up the meafure ot their fathers ; that...

...hypocrisy, envy, pride, lust, and malice — fitly represented by the corruption pf a whited tomb. 29 Wo unto you, scribes and pharisees, hypocrites ! because...prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, ' Ye build the tombs of the prophets.' That is, ye build sepulchres or tombs over the prophets that...