...Providence are not absolute or irrespective. " Behold," saith our Saviour (Matth. xxiii. 34 — 36.) " I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes...all these things shall come upon this generation." From Scripture we may infer that, when the iniquity of any nation hath arrived at frightful and excessive...

...of persecuting ancestors were visited upon that generation who persecuted Christ and his apostles. "Behold I send unto you prophets and wise men and...blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew, [the crime had been committed five hundred years before,] between the temple and the altar. Verily...

...your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city ; that upon you may come all the righteous 35 blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous...Verily, I say unto you, All these things shall come upon 36 this generation. O Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets, and stonest 37 them which...

...said this, he fell asleep. The Gospel. St. Matt, xxiii. 34. TJEHOLD, I send unto you pro*-* phets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall...temple and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these thing» shall come upon this generation. О Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and...

...impostor of the name of Theudas before the nativity of Christ. II IV. Matt, xxiii. 34. ' Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and...Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar} There is a Zacharias, whose death is related in the second book of Chronicles, It in a manner which...

...prophets, and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them yesball kill and crucify ; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from...from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. The learned Bedford, in...

...and wise men, and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them ye shall scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from...from the blood of righteous Abel, unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. The learned Bedford, in...

...Baptist. And now began to be fulfilled that word of the Lord, " Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers ! behold I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and...Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar." This persecution of the Christian church began from Jerusalem, and was overruled of God to the scattering...

...send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; arid reafter, pe Barachuu, whom ye sfeiff between the temple and the altar." ' There is a Zacharias, whose death is...

...fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers. How can ye escape the damnation of hell ? Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men. and...all these things shall come upon this generation.'' In this portion of our Saviour's words, we learn that those Jews who refused him and his doctrine,...