On Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:08:32 -0500, "H.E. Eickleberry, Jr."
Jesus was specifically equating them with
Satan, and, for all intents and purposes, literally calling them sons of
bitches,
Now you're sounding just like the one some call 'the scrambled one'
.......
Is that right?
The Pharisees knew exactly what Jesus was calling them.
Jn 8:39b Then said [the Jews] to [Jesus], We be not born of fornication; we
have one Father, even God.
These Jews immediately knew that Jesus was calling them bastards, as when
Jesus called them "brood of vipers" and the like.
In Jewish thought, to equate someone with "serpents" was to equate them with
prostitution and adultery (which is why we don't perceive the magnitude of
the insult).
Ike
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