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by his expression: "Behold the axe is already set at the root
of the tree"? Or his remark: "He holds the van in his hand
to purge out his threshing-floor"? Or when he reduced the
title "Children of Abraham" to nothing?
I will not detain you on the vagaries of the commentators,
for they are reveries which neither John nor his
hearers had ever dreamed of. Could John ever teach those
haughty Pharisees, and those rationalistic Saduqees (1) who
denied the corporeal resurrection, that on the day of the last
judgment Jesus of Nazareth would pour down upon them
his wrath and burn them like the fruitless trees and like the
chaff in the fire of Hell? There is not a single word in all
the literature of the Scriptures about the resurrection of
bodies or about Hell-fire. These Talmudistic writings are
full of eschatological material very similar to those of the
Zardushtees, but have no distinct origin in the canonical
of the tree"? Or his remark: "He holds the van in his hand
to purge out his threshing-floor"? Or when he reduced the
title "Children of Abraham" to nothing?
I will not detain you on the vagaries of the commentators,
for they are reveries which neither John nor his
hearers had ever dreamed of. Could John ever teach those
haughty Pharisees, and those rationalistic Saduqees (1) who
denied the corporeal resurrection, that on the day of the last
judgment Jesus of Nazareth would pour down upon them
his wrath and burn them like the fruitless trees and like the
chaff in the fire of Hell? There is not a single word in all
the literature of the Scriptures about the resurrection of
bodies or about Hell-fire. These Talmudistic writings are
full of eschatological material very similar to those of the
Zardushtees, but have no distinct origin in the canonical