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VERS. XXXIX.
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An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign.
I. THEIR Schools also confessed, that signs and miracles were not to be expected but by a fit generation.
u 1.1 The Elders being once assembled at Jericho, the Bath Kol went forth, and said, There is one among you who is fit to have the Holy Ghost dwell upon him, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 But that (this) generation is not fit. They fix their eyes upon Hillel the Elder. The Elders being as∣sembled again in 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, an upper room, in Jabneh, Bath Kol came forth and said, There is one among you who is fit to have the Holy Spirit dwell upon him, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 But that the Generation is not fit. They cast their eyes upon Samuel the Little.
II. That generation by which, and in which the Lord of Life was Crucified, lay, and that deservedly, under an ill report, for their great wickedness above all other, from the beginning of the world until that day. Whence that of the Prophet, Who shall declare his generation? Esai. LIII. 2. that is, his generation, (viz. that generation in which he should live) should proceed to that degree of impiety and wickedness, that it should sur∣pass all expression and history. We have observed before how the Talmudists themselves confess, that that Generation in which the Messias should come, should exceed all other Ages, in all kinds of amazing wickedness.
III. That Nation and Generation might be called Adulterous literally, for what else I beseech you was their irreligious Polygamy than continual Adultery? And what else was their ordinary practise of divorcing their wives, no less irreligious according to every mans foolish or naughty will?