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# You offspring of vipers
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Here "offspring" means "having the characteristic of." Vipers are poisonous snakes that are dangerous and represent evil. See how you translated a similar phrase in Matthew 3:7.
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# how can you say good things?
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This question can be translated as a statement. Alternate translation: “you cannot say good things.” or “you can only say evil things.”
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# out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks
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Here “heart” refers to the thoughts in a persons mind. Alternate translation: “what a person says with his mouth reveals what is in his mind”
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