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Did he not indulge in vituperation and abuse?
“Ye fools and blind” ([Matthew xxiii, 17]).
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites” ([14]).
“All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers” ([John x, 8]).
“Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?” ([Matthew xxiii, 33].)
Regarding these abusive epithets of Christ, Prof. Newman says: “The Jewish nation may well complain that they have been cruelly slandered by the gospels. The invectives have been burnt into the heart of Christendom, so that the innocent Jews, children of the dispersion, have felt in millennial misery—yes, and to this day feel—the deadly sting of these fierce and haughty utterances” (Jesus Christ, p. 25).