...themselves as we do of ourselves, and as ill of their persecuting ancestors as we do of them. They built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous ; and said, " If we had been in the days of ou-r fathers, we would not have been partakers with them...

...beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men's bones, and all filthiness." Eighthly, " For they built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, whose doctrine they refused to be ruled by." Which of all these eight woes but we have incurred ? Peculiarly...

...conduct of the Scribes and Pharisees of old, who, whilst persecuting our blessed Lord even unto death, " built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous," whom their forefathers had put to death b. Precisely thus we also at this time honour the memory of...

...or carcase, but they. 6. And this was in those Scribes and Pharisees, as Christ saith, Who builded the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, and say, if we had been in our fathers days, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood...

...in their synagogues, and some they persecuted from city to city. At length a generation arose that built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, and said, if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in...

...monuments, while it abode not in the truths for which those martyrs bled ; there was a city wherein men built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, while they filled up the measure of their fathers, by whom those prophets and righteous men' were slain...

...impurity. And, above all, they gave liberally of their substance to support the divine woi'ship : they built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous. Professing such extraordinary sanctity, and giving so many marks of regard for the honour of God, we...

...angry with the Jews. We may be sure of this from seeing how they in then: time felt and acted. They built the tombs of the prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous; and said, //' we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in...

...by Christ against the * Matt, xxiii. 27—89. scribes and pharisees, who, while breathing murder, ' built the tombs of the Prophets, and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous,' impends with incalculably greater weight over the church of Rome. But now it is most remarkable (so...

...more important matters to be attended to at the same time. There have been those, ere now, who builded the tombs of the prophets and garnished the sepulchres of the righteous, yet who bore witness against themselves that they were the children of them who killed the prophets...