if we think that they did not mean by the words law and
sacrifice anything else than that of Moses, there is a plain and gross
contradiction. Therefore they meant something else, sometimes contradicting
themselves in the same chapter. Now, to understand the meaning of an
author...
660. Lust has become natural to us and has made our second nature. Thus
there are two natures in us--the one good, the other bad. Where is God?
Where you are not, and the kingdom of God is within you.The Rabbis.
661. Penitence, alone of all these mysteries, has been manifestly declared
to the Jews, and by Saint John, the Forerunner; and then the other
mysteries; to indicate that in each man, as in the entire world, this order
must be observed.
662. The carnal Jews understood neither the greatness nor the humiliation of
the Messiah foretold in their prophecies. They misunderstood Him in His
foretold greatness, as when He said that the Messiah should be lord of
David, though his son, and that He was before Abraham, who had seen Him.
They did not believe Him so great as to be eternal, and they likewise
misunderstood Him in His humiliation and in His death. "The Messiah," said
they, "abideth for ever, and this man says that he shall die." Therefore
they believed Him neither mortal nor eternal; they only sought in Him for a
carnal greatness.
663. Typical.--Nothing is so like charity as covetousness, and nothing is so
opposed to it. Thus the Jews, full of possessions which flattered their
covetousness, were very like Christians, and very contrary. And by this
means they had the two qualities which it was necessary they should have, to
be very like the Messiah to typify Him, and very contrary not to be
suspected witnesses.
664. Typical.--God made use o
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