“Because Israel, symbolically called "son" since Egypt, had lost its sonship through having worshiped Baal and offered incense to idols, John gave them a name which suited them: race of vipers. Because these had lost that title of sonship, which had been poured over them through grace in the days of Moses, they receive…”
Ephrem the Syrian, 4th c. — COMMENTARY ON TATIAN'S DIATESSARON 3:8–9
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1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.
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— Hosea 11:1 —
2As they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
3I taught Ephraim also to go, taking them by their arms; but they knew not that I healed them.