ness. So also your outside appears to men just, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets and ye adorn the memorials of the just, and ye say if we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been sharers with them in the blood of the prophets. So ye witness to yourselves that ye are sons of those who killed the prophets, and ye fill up the measure of your fathers. Serpents! brood of vipers! how can ye escape from the judgment of Gehenna? Wherefore behold I send to you prophets and wise men and scribes, and [some] of them ye will kill and will crucify, and [some] of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city, that may come on you all just blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the just to the blood of Zacharias, son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar. Truly I say to you all these things shall come on this generation.

3.

Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killing the prophets and stoning those sent to thee, how often have I wished to gather thy children together, as a hen gathers her chickens under the wings, and ye would not; behold your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, ye shall not see me from now, till ye shall say, blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord. Ps. cxviii.

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DISCOURSE VII.

1.

AND many false-teachers shall arise and shall deceive many, and through lawlessness being made full the love of the many shall be put to flight. If they shall say to you, 'behold he is in the desert' go not out-'behold in the chambers,' believe not. For as the lightning comes out of the East and shines to the West so shall be the presence of the son of man; where the carcase is there also the eagles will be gathered together. But as the days of Noah so shall be also the presence of the son of man. For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered into the ark, and knew not till the flood came and took away all, so shall be the presence of the son of man. Then two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken and the one shall be let go; two women grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken and the one let go.

2.

Watch therefore, because ye know not in what hour your Lord comes. But know this, that if the housemaster knew in what watch the thief comes, he would watch and not permit his house to be broken into. Wherefore be ye also ready, for the son of man comes at an hour when ye expect not. Who then is the faithful and prudent slave,

whom the Lord will set over the household to distribute to them food at the right time? Happy that slave, whom his Lord coming shall find doing so; Truly I say to you, he shall place him over all belonging to him. But if that bad slave say in his heart, 'my Lord is a long time,' and begin to beat his fellow-slaves and eat and drink with the drunken, the Lord of that slave shall come in a day when he expects not, and in an hour when he knows not, and shall cut him in two and shall place his portion with the hypocrites; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

3.

Then the kingdom of "heaven" shall be likened to ten virgins, who taking their lamps, went out to the meeting of the bridegroom. And five of them were prudent and five foolish. Those who were foolish, taking their lamps took no oil with them; but the prudent ones took oil in their vessels with their lamps. While the bridegroom delayed they all were drowsy and lay down to sleep. And in the middle of the night there was a cry, 'behold the bridegroom, go out to meet him.' Then all those virgins. rose up and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the prudent, 'give us of your oil, for our lamps are going out.' But the prudent answered, saying '[no], lest there be not enough for us and you; go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves'; and while they went away to buy the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut; afterwards the other virgins came and said, 'Lord, Lord, open to us' but he answered and said 'truly I say to you, I know you not.' Watch therefore for ye know neither the day nor the hour.

4.

For as man going from home called his own slaves, and delivered to them his property; and to one indeed he gave five talants, to one two, and to one, one, to each according to his own power; and immediately he set out from home. And he who received the five talants went and set to work with them and made other five talants. Likewise also he [having] the two, he also gained other two. But he who received the one, went away and dug in the earth, and hid the money of his Lord. After a long time the Lord of those slaves comes and takes account with them, and he that received five talants, coming forward brought other five talants, saying, 'Lord, thou deliveredst to me five talants, behold I have gained five talants more.' His Lord said to him 'well, good and faithful slave, thou wast faithful in few things, I will set thee up over many things; enter into the joy of thy Lord.' And he that had received the two talants coming forward said, 'Lord, thou deliveredst to me two talants, behold I have gained two other talants'. His Lord said to him, 'well, good and faithful slave, thou wast faithful in few things, I will set thee up over many things; enter into the joy of thy Lord.' And he who had received the one talant coming forward, said, 'Lord, I knew thee, that thou art a stern man, reaping where thou hast not sown and gathering from places on which thou hast not scattered, and I feared and went and hid thy talant in the ground, behold thou hast thine own.' And his master answering said to him-Evil and slothful slave, didst thou know that I reap where I have not sowed, and gather from ground on which I have not scattered; it became thee then to place my money with the bankers,

and when I came, I should have received my own with interest. Take therefore from him the talant, and give to him who has the ten talants. For to every one who has there shall be given, and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken. And cast out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness.' There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

5.

When the son of man shall come in his glory and all the angels with him, then he shall sit on the throne of his glory, and all nations shall be brought together before him, and he shall divide them from one another, as the shepherd divides the sheep from the goats; and he shall set the sheep on his right hand and the goats on the left. Then the king shall say to those on his right hand, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and ye gave me to eat, I was thirsty and ye gave me to drink, and I was a stranger and ye brought me in, naked and ye clothed me, I was sick and ye looked after me, I was in prison and ye came to me.' Then the just shall answer him saying, 'Lord, when saw we thee hungry and fed thee, or thirsty and gave thee drink? when saw we thee a stranger and brought thee in, or naked and clothed thee? when saw we thee sick or in prison and came to thee?' And the king answering shall say to themTruly I say to you, as far as ye did it to one of these least of my brethren, ye did to me.' Then he shall say also to those on the left, 'Go from me, cursed, to the fire the lasting, prepared for the devil and his angels; for I was hungry, and ye did not give me to eat, I was thirsty