47 “Wae for ye! for that ye bigg the monuments oʼ the prophets — and yere faithers slew them!
“Wae for you, Scribes and Pharisees, pretenders! for ye are like whited tombs, whilk look bonnie outside, but within are fuʼ oʼ deid menʼs banes, and aʼ uncleanness.
“Sae are ye witnesses; and are ane wiʼ the deeds of yere faithers; for they slew, and ye bigg!
“Stiff‐neckit and thrawn! uncircumceesed in heart and lugs! ye aye hae a plea wiʼ the Holie Spirit! as yere faithers, sae div ye.
Wha slew baith the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Prophets; and us they persecute, and are displeasin to God, and contrary to aʼ men;