“Because then they will fill up the measure of their fathers' purposes, therefore are they serpents, and an offspring of vipers.”
Hilary of Poitiers, 4th c. — Catena Aurea by Aquinas
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33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
— Matthew 23:33 —
34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
35That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.