the light of Jesus, shining forth from the dayspring
of the Spirit, encompassed the world, all the
people of Israel arose in protest against Him.
They clamoured that He Whose advent the Bible
had foretold must needs promulgate and fulfil the
laws of Moses, whereas this youthful Nazarene,
who laid claim to the station of the divine Messiah,
had annulled the law of divorce and of the sabbath
day--the most weighty of all the laws of Moses.
Moreover, what of the signs of the Manifestation
yet to come? These people of Israel are even unto
the present day still expecting that Manifestation
which the Bible hath foretold! How many Manifestations
of Holiness, how many Revealers of the
light everlasting, have appeared since the time of
Moses, and yet Israel, wrapt in the densest veils of
satanic fancy and false imaginings, is still expectant
that the idol of her own handiwork will appear
with such signs as she herself hath conceived!
Thus hath God laid hold of them for their sins,
hath extinguished in them the spirit of faith, and
tormented them with the flames of the nethermost
fire. And this for no other reason except that Israel
refused to apprehend the meaning of such words as
have been revealed in the Bible concerning the
signs of the coming Revelation. As she never
