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Posted by TOXiC on January 15, 2008, 11:42 pm
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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, scattered abroad, are four thousand years old.
The more I examine them, the more truths I find in them: an entire nation
foretell Him before His advent, and an entire nation worship Him after His
advent; what has preceded and what has followed; in short, people without
idols and kings, this synagogue which was foretold, and these wretches who
frequent it and who, being our enemies, are admirable witnesses of the
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