For — We have the church on our side; the regular priests and the prophets, they know God's mind as well as he. Let us smite him with the tongue — Expose him, representing him to be what the people hate.
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Jeremiah 18:18
18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.