per my dear debtor
- From: promptly@xxxxxxxxxx (Mel)
- Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2007 17:54:48 GMT
the chosen people would be fruitless, ungrateful, and
unbelieving, populum non credentem et contradicentem.141 That God would
strike them with blindness, and in full noon they would grope like the
blind; and that a forerunner would go before Him.
736. Transfixerunt.[142] Zech. 12:10.
That a deliverer should come, who would crush the demon's head, and free His
people from their sins, ex omnibus iniquitatibus;[143] that there should be
a New Covenant, which would be eternal; that there should be another
priesthood after the order of Melchisedek, and it should be eternal; that
the Christ should be glorious, mighty, strong, and yet so poor that He would
not be recognised, nor taken for what He is, but rejected and slain; that
His people who denied Him should no longer be His people; that the idolaters
should receive Him, and take refuge in Him; that He should leave Zion to
reign in the centre of idolatry; that nevertheless the Jews should continue
for ever; that He should be of Judah, and when there should be no longer a
king.
SECTION XII: PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST
737. Therefore I reject all other religions. In that way I find an answer to
all objections. It is right that a God so pure should only reveal Himself to
those whose hearts are purified. Hence this religion is lovable to me, and I
find it now sufficiently justified by so divine a morality. But I find more
in it.
I find it convincing that, since the memory of man has lasted, it was
constantly announced to men that they were universally corrupt, but that a
Redeemer should come; that it is not one man who said it, but innumerable
men, and a whole nation expressly made for the purpose and prophesying for
four thousand years. This is a nation which is more ancient than every other
nation. Their books, scatte
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