<p>23:31- see on 15:2.<br /><em>Therefore you witness to yourselves- </em>AV &quot;Witnesses against yourselves<em>&quot;.&nbsp;</em>The rejected are witnesses against themselves (Is. 44:9). Herein lies the crass folly and illogicality of sin. Jeremiah pleaded with Israel: &quot;Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls i.e. yourselves, to cut off from you man and woman... that ye might cut yourselves off&quot; (Jer. 44:7,8, cp. how Jerusalem cut her own hair off in Jer. 7:29). In the same passage, Yahweh is the one who does the cutting off (Jer. 44:11); but they had cut themselves off. Likewise as they had kindled fire on their roofs in offering sacrifices to Baal, so Yahweh through the Babylonians would set fire to those same houses (Jer. 32:29). And note the present tense of the Lord&rsquo;s words here. In that the judgment process is now ongoing, we&nbsp;<em>are right now&nbsp;</em>witnesses against ourselves when we sin. And we are not only witnesses, but also the judge who pronounces the verdict of condemnation: for the sinner is condemned&nbsp;<em>of himself&nbsp;</em>(Tit. 3:11). In this lies the illogicality of sin and the utter blindness of man to the implications of his actions before God. They right now fulfil or live out the judgment of the wicked (Job 36:17).</p><p><em>You are the sons of them that slew the prophets</em>-&nbsp;The idea of being a &lsquo;son of&rsquo; someone or something meant to be in agreement with them, or to be a disciple of them. Again, this seems an example of imputing iniquity. Their usage of the term &ldquo;our fathers&rdquo; was taken by the Lord to mean that they &lsquo;allowed&rsquo; or Gk. &lsquo;had pleasure in&rsquo; the murder of the prophets (Lk. 11:48). But the same words &ldquo;our fathers&rdquo; are used by Paul to describe his faithless Israelite forbears- and he is not condemned for it (1 Cor. 10:1; Acts 28:25). Clearly, the same words can be used by men with different background meanings, and this is seen by God and His Son. But all we hear are the words- we cannot therefore judge them.</p>