crites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, and say, If ice had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers tvith them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye ivitness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up, then, the measure of your fathers. . . . I send unto you proph ets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: that upon you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel. . . .

"Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven."

Of a truth we might say that all this was written but yesterday, not against men who no longer com pass sea and land to blaspheme against the Spirit, or to convert men to a religion that renders its pros-