Mat 12:34, 23:33 | JFB | STEP | 34. O generation of vipers —(See on ). how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh —a principle obvious enough, yet of deepest significance and vast application. In we find it uttered as part of the discourse delivered after the choice of the apostles.

Matthew 12:34

34. O generation of vipers—(See on Mt 3:7).

how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh—a principle obvious enough, yet of deepest significance and vast application. In Lu 6:45 we find it uttered as part of the discourse delivered after the choice of the apostles.

Matthew 23:33

33. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?—In thus, at the end of His ministry, recalling the words of the Baptist at the outset of his, our Lord would seem to intimate that the only difference between their condemnation now and then was, that now they were ripe for their doom, which they were not then.