They hatch adders' eggs; they weave the spider's web; he who eats their eggs dies, and from one that is crushed a viper is hatched.
But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
You brood of vipers! How can you speak good, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of you, that the rod that struck you is broken, for from the serpent's root will come forth an adder, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
In the end it bites like a serpent and stings like an adder.
His confidence is severed, and his trust is a spider's web.
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