Now we know that thou hast a demon [i.

e.

art mad.] Abraham is dead, and the Prophets, and thou sayest if a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death ?" So said the Jews, and if in our times, a man was to make a similar assertion, should we not say the same?
Many instances might also be given of strange and inconsequent reasoning; but I shall only adduce the following.

He reproaches the Pharisees, Luke xi.

47, 48, for building and adorning the sepulchres of the Prophets, whom their wicked fathers slew; and says to them, "Your fathers slew them, and ye build their sepulchres," and he adds, "that thus they showed that they approved the deeds of their fathers!" Surely this is absurd! Did the Athenians by setting up a statue to Socrates after his unjust death, show to the world that they "approved" the deed of them who slew him?
did it not show the direct contrary?
and was it not intended as a testimony of their regret, and repentance?
Again, "Upon you (says Jesus to the Jews) shall come all the righteous blood that has been shed upon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, to the blood of Zechariah," &c.