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Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 40 · 1888

“I Would; but ye Would Not.”

Matthew 23:37

THIS is not and could not be the language of a mere man. It would be utterly absurd for any man to say that he would have gathered the inhabitants of a city together, “even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.” Besides, the language implies that, for many centuries, by the sending of…