'Offspring' in the Bible
But seeing many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
Offspring of vipers! how can ye speak good things, being wicked? For of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?
He said therefore to the crowds which went out to be baptised by him, Offspring of vipers, who has forewarned you to flee from the coming wrath?
for in him we live and move and exist; as also some of the poets amongst you have said, For we are also his offspring.
Being therefore the offspring of God, we ought not to think that which is divine to be like gold or silver or stone, the graven form of man's art and imagination.
I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify these things to you in the assemblies. I am the root and offspring of David, the bright and morning star.