who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men;
It is asked, why he says that Christ and the prophets were killed by the same persons? I answer, that this refers to the entire body, (545) for Paul means that there is nothing new or unusual in their resisting God, but that, on the contrary, they are, in this manner, filling up the measure of their fathers, as Christ speaks. (Matthew 23:32) 