Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live forever? - In contrast to "my words" (Zechariah 1:6), "which endure forever" (1 Peter 1:25). 'Your fathers have perished, as was foretold; and their fate ought to warn you. But you may say, the prophets too are dead: I grant it, but still MY words do not die: though "the prophets" are dead, their prophetic words from me, fulfilled against your fathers, are not dead with them. Beware, then, lest ye share their fate,