“Then said he to the multitude that came forth to be baptized of him, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?”
John said to the crowds coming out to be baptized by him: you brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath? — the brood of vipers is prophetic confrontation at its most direct: the people who have come for baptism are addressed as dangerous serpents fleeing a threatened field. Who warned you to flee suggests they are responding to alarm without genuine repentance. The coming wrath is the eschatological judgment that John's arrival announces.
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