“Once the prophets had departed this life, their bodies were in the tomb but their souls and spirits were in the "realm of the living." Accordingly, the historical narrative of the prophetic writings is to be regarded as the body but their spiritual meaning and the inner truth as the soul and spirit which inhabits hist…”
Origen of Alexandria, 3th c. — COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 27
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30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
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28Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
— Matthew 23:30 —
31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.