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 BY 
 ALLEN W.*JOHNSTON 
 
 Author of “The Roman Catholic Bible and the Roman 
 Catholic Church,’ “The Bible and Christian 
 Science,” etc. 
 
 INTRODUCTION BY 
 DAVID JAMES BURRELL, D.D. 
 
 Minister, Marble Collegiate Church, New York 
 
 
 
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Copyright, 1925, by 
 FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY 
 
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FOREWORD 
 
 LL men are naturally and intuitively reli- 
 gious, having been created in the likeness 
 _ of God. 
 
 Sin alienates from God. Religion is seeking 
 after a lost God, lost through sin. ‘‘We came forth 
 from God” (to quote from Augustine) “and we are 
 homesick until we return to Him.” 
 
 But religion is not enough; the “homeward way” 
 must end at the Father’s house. Christianity 
 claims to be the only true religion because it finds 
 God. It finds Him unveiled in the person of his 
 only begotten Son who said, “He that hath seen me 
 hath seen the Father; I and my Father are one.” 
 
 How do we know that Christ is God? By the 
 print of the nails in His hands. Everybody insists 
 that “God is love”: but an insensate God who 
 leaves the creatures of His hand adrift on a shore- 
 less and uncharted sea of trouble without making 
 bare His arm to help them is no God for thinking 
 men. Christ is “the Arm of the Lord made bare” 
 for salvation unto all who are willing to be saved 
 through Him. 
 
 This book, written by a Gentile layman, a de- 
 voted Christian “mighty in the Scriptures,” is an 
 
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 earnest, loving endeavour to present Christ, the 
 long-looked-for Messiah and only Saviour, to the 
 ancient people of God. It is based upon the 
 prophecies of the Old Testament concerning 
 Christ, beginning with the “seed of woman” who 
 was to come in fulness of time to “bruise the ser- 
 pent’s head” and deliver the world from the 
 shame and power and penalty of sin. 
 
 It is a proverb among Christians that the Jews 
 are the most inaccessible of all peoples to the 
 Gospel. Yet there is an open-air pulpit in New 
 York (on the corner of Fifth Avenue and Twenty- 
 Ninth Street) where, daily, throngs of Jews as- 
 semble at noon to hear a simple, loving presenta- 
 tion of Christ, where the printed Scriptures are 
 distributed and gladly received; and there is reason 
 to believe that many have been convinced. 
 
 “To the Law and the testimony.” Their own 
 prophets must convince them. Jesus said: “If they 
 believe not Moses and the prophets, neither would 
 they believe though one rose from the dead.” 
 
 The author makes no railing accusation against 
 the Jews. The spirit of his argument is commend- 
 able every way. It is like that of Christ himself 
 who mourned over the rejection of his overtures of 
 mercy with tears: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how 
 often I would have gathered you, as a hen doth 
 gather her brood under her wings, and ye would 
 not.” 
 
FOREWORD - 
 
 The time is coming, however, when the Chosen 
 People are to acknowledge Christ as their Messiah; 
 at his appearing every knee shall bow before him 
 and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus is the 
 Christ of God. 
 
 Meanwhile, “how beautiful upon the mountains 
 are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that 
 saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!” 
 
 Davip JAMES BURRELL. 
 
 Marble Collegiate Church, 
 New York, N.Y. 
 
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AUTHOR’S PREFACE 
 
 HIS book is written with the hope that 
 among the Jews, God’s Chosen People, 
 there will be those who will in the read- 
 
 ing, accept Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ whom 
 their forefathers rejected, as their Messiah. 
 
 The writer is not giving a detailed account of 
 the Jewish tenets contained in Jewish literature, 
 but only, as he believes, sufficient thereof to serve 
 the hope he has expressed. 
 
 Holy Scripture, of the First Covenant and of the 
 New Covenant with God’s people, is quoted from 
 the Old and New Testaments. 
 
 With such a purpose in mind, may not the 
 writer have reason to believe that his book will be 
 received by all who read it, as not intended to an- 
 tagonise souls, but rather to win them to Christ? 
 
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 Schenectady, N. Y. 
 
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CONTENTS 
 
 ADAM 
 
 . AFTER Many Days ; 
 . DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 
 . Hope Must BE IN CHRIST . 
 
 LAW AND GRACE . 
 
 . JACOB’s PROPHECY CONCERNING 
 
 SHILOH 
 
 . CONCLUSION . 
 
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I 
 ADAM 
 
 IN THE BEGINNING 
 
 ND God said, Let us make man in our image, 
 
 A after our likeness; and let them have dominion 
 
 over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of 
 
 the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, 
 
 and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the 
 earth. 
 
 So God created man in his own image, in the image of 
 God created he him; male and female created he 
 PRCUE ie ai%6 
 
 And God saw everything that he had made, and, be- 
 hold, it was very good. And the evening and the 
 morning were the sixth day.—GENESIS I: 26, 27, 31. 
 
 Thus man was made “very good” but did not 
 remain so. 
 
 And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; 
 and there he put the man whom he had formed. 
 
 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of 
 every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: 
 
 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou 
 shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest 
 thereof thou shalt surely die. 
 
 And the Lord God said, It is not good that the man 
 should be alone; I will make him an help meet for 
 him. 
 
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14 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, 
 made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.— 
 GENESIS 2: 8, 16, 17, 18, 22. 
 
 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of 
 the field which the Lord God had made. And he 
 said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall 
 not eat of every tree of the garden? 
 
 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not 
 SUPOLY WE ee 
 
 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for 
 food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a 
 tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the 
 fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her 
 husband with her; and he did eat... . 
 
 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the gar- 
 den of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
 taken. 
 
 So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east 
 of the garden of Eden Cherubims, and a flaming 
 sword which turned every way, to keep the way of 
 the tree of life-——GENESIS 3: 1, 4, 6, 23, 24. 
 
 Thus it came that man fell from good and be- 
 came evil. 
 
 Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man 
 upright; but they have sought out many inventions. 
 —ECCLESIASTES 7: 20. 
 
 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in 
 the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts 
 of his heart was only evil continually. 
 
 And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the 
 earth, and tt grieved him at his heart... . 
 
 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. 
 
ADAM 15 
 
 These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just 
 man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked 
 with God. 
 
 And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and 
 VOPHELR as 
 
 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come 
 before me; for the earth is filled with violence 
 through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with 
 the earth. ... 
 
 But with thee will I establish my covenant; and thou 
 shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy 
 wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee... . 
 
 Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded 
 him, so did he.—GENESIs 6: 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13, 18, 22. 
 
 As man was created in the image of God, he 
 was created “Heart, Soul and Mind.” The “us” 
 and “our” of the original Being, was Father, Son 
 and Holy Ghost: 
 
 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
 our likeness: and let them have dominion over the 
 fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
 the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every 
 creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.— 
 GENESIS I: 26. 
 
 ABRAM—-ABRAHAM—THE FATHER OF US ALL 
 
 From Noah’s time a new generation of men 
 came upon the earth: 
 
 These are the generations of Shem. Shem was an hun- 
 dred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after 
 the flood. <.. . 
 
 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat 
 Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.— 
 GENESIS II: I0, 27. 
 
16 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, 
 saying, 
 
 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
 shalt be a father of many nations. 
 
 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but 
 thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many 
 nations have I-made thee... . 
 
 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee 
 and thy seed after thee in their generations for an 
 everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to 
 thy seed after thee. 
 
 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, 
 the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of 
 Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be 
 bheir Gade! .<\. 
 
 And God said unto Abraham, As for Sarai thy wife, 
 thou shalt not call her name Sarai, but Sarak shall 
 her name be. 
 
 And I will bless her, and give thee a son also of her: 
 yea, I will bless her, and she shall be a mother of 
 nations ; kings of people shall be of her... . 
 
 And God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son 
 indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac: and I 
 will establish my covenant with him for an everlast- 
 ing covenant, and with his seed after him.—GENESIS 
 T7: 3, 4, 5) 7; 8, 15; 16, IQ. 
 
 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children oft 
 promise.—GALATIANS 4: 28. 
 
 And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that 
 thing which I do; 
 
 Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and 
 mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall 
 be blessed in him? 
 
 For I know him, that he will command his children, 
 
ADAM 17 
 
 and his household after him, and they shall keep the 
 way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment; that 
 the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which he. 
 hath spoken of him——GENESIS 18: 17, 18, 19. 
 
 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. 
 He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, 
 And to thy seed, which ts Christ. 
 
 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed 
 before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hun- 
 dred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it 
 should make the promise of none effect. ... 
 
 But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that 
 the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given 
 to them that believe—GALATIANS 3: 16, 17, 22. 
 
 Hearken to me, ye that follow, after righteousness, ye 
 that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are 
 hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are 
 digged. 
 
 Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that 
 bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, 
 and increased him.—ISAIAH 51: I, 2. 
 
 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the 
 world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through 
 the law, but through the righteousness of faith... . 
 
 Therefore it 1s of faith, that it might be by grace; to 
 the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 
 not to that only which is of the law, but to that also 
 which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father 
 of us all—RoMANS 4: 13, 16. 
 
 JESUS CHRIST 
 
 Abraham is the Father of the Hebrew People. 
 Much more and in a perfect sense is Jesus an 
 
18 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Everlasting Father, so asserted by Moses and by 
 Isaiah, the prophet, if their testimony will be be- 
 lieved by the Jews. Hear the witnesses: 
 
 And Moses spake in the ears of the congregation of 
 Israel the words of this song, until they were ended.— 
 DEUTERONOMY 31: 30. 
 
 Give ear, O ye heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O 
 earth, the words of my mouth... . 
 
 Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and un- 
 wise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? 
 hath he not made thee, and established thee?— 
 DEUTERONOMY 32: 1, 6. 
 
 When in Genesis, first chapter, and twenty-sixth 
 verse God said: ‘‘Let ws make man in our image 
 after our likeness,” Jesus Christ, His only begotten 
 Son, was included in the us and the our, because 
 He was in the beginning with God. 
 
 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after 
 our likeness: and let them have dominion over the 
 fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over 
 the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every 
 creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth— 
 GENESIS I: 26. 
 
 As to Jesus Christ, it is written: 
 
 The same was in the beginning with God. 
 All things were made by him; and without him was not 
 anything made that was made.—JOHN I: 2, 3. 
 
 When the time had come, we find the Son of God 
 teaching the man He created. 
 
ADAM 19 
 
 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them 
 in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of 
 the Holy Ghost—MATTHEW 28: 19. 
 
 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a 
 question, tempting him, and saying, 
 
 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 
 
 Jesus said unio him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God 
 with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with 
 all thy mind. 
 
 This is the first and great commandment. 
 
 And the second is like unio it, Thou shalt love thy 
 neighbour as thyself —MATTHEW 22: 35, 36, 37, 38, 
 
 39: 
 
 Man created in the image of God the Father, 
 and possessing Fatherhood, implied that God in 
 His person was, and is, a Father. Jesus Christ is 
 His only begotten Son. 
 
 The name “Lord God” is not mentioned in 
 Genesis until after man was created. Thereafter 
 His name is often mentioned as “Lord God:” 
 
 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
 God, and the word was God. 
 
 The same was in the beginning with God. 
 
 All things were made by him; and without him was not 
 anything made that was made... . 
 
 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
 (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
 begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth— 
 JOPNGT IT 4:2) 73554. 
 
 God is a Spirit, and He is also the Father. 
 
20 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And the earth was without form, and void; and dark- 
 ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit 
 of God moved upon the face of the waters -——GENESIS 
 Lue. 
 
 Christ, who was in the beginning, is One with 
 God. 
 
 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and 
 vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- 
 ments of the world, and not after Christ. 
 
 For in him dwelleth all the fulness of the Godhead 
 bodily —COoLOSSIANS 2: 8, 9. 
 
 These names of Jesus Christ are given in Scrip- 
 ture by the prophet Isaiah, among them is The 
 everlasting Father: 
 
 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
 the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
 name Shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
 Peace. 
 
 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
 be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
 kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
 ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this— 
 IsAIAH 9: 6, 7. 
 
 This prophecy was made by Isaiah about 300 
 years after the time of King David’s reign. The 
 Jews correctly insist that their God is One. Scrip- 
 ture confirms it as follows: 
 
ADAM 21 
 
 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call 
 him Lord, saying, ... 
 
 If David then cali him Lord, how is he his son?— 
 MATTHEW 22: 43, 45. 
 
 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 
 until I make thine enemies thy footstool—PsaLtm 
 110: I, 
 
 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast 
 said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none 
 other but he: 
 
 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the 
 understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the 
 strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is 
 more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices. 
 
 And when Jesus saw that he answered discreetly, he 
 said unto him, Thou art not far from the kingdom 
 of God. And no man after that durst ask him any 
 question —MARK 12: 32, 33, 34. 
 
 When the work of Jesus Christ, who is now in 
 Heaven at the right hand of God, shall be finished, 
 then God shall be all in all: 
 
 Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up 
 the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he 
 shall have put down all rule and all authority and 
 power. ... 
 
 And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then 
 shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that 
 put all things under him, that God may be ali in all. 
 —-I CoRINTHIANS 15: 24, 28. 
 
 Jesus Christ shall have that glory which He had 
 with the Father before the world was. We pre- 
 
22 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 sent the evidence of it from both the Old and 
 New Testaments: 
 
 I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the 
 work which thou gavest me to do. 
 
 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 
 self with the glory which I had with thee before the 
 world was. ... 
 
 And now I am no more in the world, but these are in 
 the world, and I come to thee. Holy Father, keep 
 through thine own name those whom thou hast given 
 me, that they may be one, as we are... . 
 
 And now come I to thee; and these things I speak in 
 the world, that they might have my joy fulfilled in 
 themselves —JOHN 17: 4, 5, II, 13. 
 
 And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was 
 preached unto you: 
 
 Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitu- 
 tion of all things, which God hath spoken by the 
 mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began. 
 
 For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shali 
 the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, 
 like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things what- 
 soever he shall say unto you.—ACTS 3: 20, 21, 22. 
 
 The Lord thy God will raise up unio thee a Prophet 
 from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto 
 me; unto him ye shall hearken—DEUTERONOMY 
 Lao ath ae 
 
 What Prophet in all the world’s history resem- 
 bles (being like unto) Moses, as does Jesus 
 Christ? 
 
ADAM 23 
 
 Well may Israel rejoice in the prayer of Jesus 
 that He might be glorified with the glory of the 
 Father which He had with the Father before the 
 world was. 
 
 For He is there now bringing Israel to Him- 
 self, through faith in His name. Here is the tes- 
 timony of the martyr Stephen: 
 
 But he, being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stead~ 
 fastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and 
 Jesus standing on the right hand of God. 
 
 And said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the 
 Son of man standing on the right hand of God... . 
 
 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying 
 Lord Jesus, receive my spirit. 
 
 And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, 
 lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had 
 said this, he fell asleep——Acts 7: 55, 56, 59, 60. 
 
 THE MESSIAH—A SAVIOUR 
 
 Where can we find such love as Christ has? 
 How shall man escape if so great salvation is 
 neglected? 
 
 For if the word spoken by angels was stedfast, and 
 every transgression and disobedience received a just 
 recompence of reward; 
 
 How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; 
 which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, 
 and was confirmed unio us by them that heard him. 
 —HEBREWS 2: 2, 3. 
 
 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ... how often would I have 
 gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather 
 
24 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 her brood under her wings, and ye would not!— 
 LUKE 13: 34. 
 
 But Israel is to return to his God through faith 
 in Jesus Christ, who was crucified for the world. 
 
 And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise 
 thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger 
 is turned away, and thou comfortedst me. 
 
 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be 
 afraid; for the Lord JEHOVAH is my strength and my 
 song; he also is become my salvation. 
 
 Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the' 
 wells of salvation. 
 
 And in that day shall ye say, Praise the Lord, call 
 upon his name, declare his doings among the people, 
 make mention that his name is exalted. 
 
 Sing unto the Lord; for he hath done excellent things: 
 this is known in all the earth. 
 
 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great 
 is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee —IsataH 
 
 12: I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 
 
 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There 
 shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn 
 away ungodliness from Jacob. 
 
 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take 
 away their sins. 
 
 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your 
 sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved 
 for the fathers’ sakes. 
 
 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 
 —ROMANS II: 26, 27, 28, 29. 
 
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
 gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
 not perish, but have everlasting life-——JOHN 3: 16. 
 
ADAM 25 
 
 Jesus Christ, by all of His names given by the 
 Father and contained in Scripture, is the Messiah 
 of Scripture. The only begotten of the Father 
 and a Stone of Stumbling and a Rock of Offence 
 to both houses of Israel. 
 
 Sanctify the Lord of hosts himself; and let him be your 
 fear, and let him be your dread. 
 
 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of 
 stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the 
 houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the in- 
 habitants of Jerusalem. 
 
 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be 
 broken, and be snared, and be taken. 
 
 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 
 
 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from 
 the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 
 
 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given 
 me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the 
 Lord of Hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.— 
 ISAIAH 8:13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18. 
 
 Does not Christ speak here in the Spirit: “I 
 and the children whom the Lord hath given me’’? 
 
 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, 
 Behold I and the children which God hath given me. 
 —HEBREWS 2: 13. 
 
 ONE GOD 
 
 Is there not One God in Three Persons—Father, 
 Son and Holy Ghost,—as well as the one universe 
 we know, with unnumbered stars within it? 
 
26 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Does not the electric light have united in one 
 form, light, heat and power, manifest or latent? 
 If this is so in nature, why may it not be true in 
 nature’s Creator? 
 
 Hebrew children, we learn, have been taught 
 by loving parents that the Talmud is to be closely 
 associated with the Law which God gave to Moses, 
 and which was written in the Book of the Law. 
 
 When we compare portions of the Talmud with 
 the written law of God by Moses, we feel com- 
 pelled to take note of the great difference and to 
 feel thankful for the sake of a people God has 
 chosen, that our Saviour, Jesus Christ, referred to 
 the traditions of the Jews as He did. 
 
 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold 
 the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: 
 and many other such like things ye do. 
 
 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the com- 
 mandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradi- 
 tion, 
 
 Making the word of God of none effect through your 
 tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such 
 like things do ye —MARK 7: 8, 9, 13. 
 
 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
 elders? for they wash not thei hands when they eat 
 bread. 
 
 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
 transgress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
 tion? 
 
 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines 
 the commandments of men.—MATTHEW 15: 2, 3, 9. 
 
ADAM ee 
 
 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with 
 corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain 
 conversation received by tradition from your fathers ; 
 
 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb 
 without blemish and without spot... . 
 
 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation 
 of the world, but was manifest in these last times for 
 you.—I PETER 1: 18, 19, 20. 
 
 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and 
 vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudi- 
 ments of the world, and not after Christ —Co.os- 
 SIANS 2: 8. 
 
 How is it to be explained that Nebuchadnezzar 
 saw in the fiery furnace a fourth man who looked 
 like the Son of God, unless it was that the like- 
 ness of the Son of God had been revealed to him 
 from heaven, or by men who had made the like- 
 ness of the Son of God to become known to men 
 through their knowledge of the Scripture prophe- 
 sies or revelations from heaven otherwise made to 
 them? It was not a Son of God the King saw, 
 but was the form of a fourth man walking in the 
 midst of the fire, and the form of the man was 
 like the Son of God. 
 
 So these children of Israel were delivered. 
 
 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking 
 in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and 
 the form of the fourth is like the Son of God. 
 
 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the 
 God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath 
 sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted 
 
28 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 in him, and have changed the king’s word, and 
 yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor 
 worship any god, except their own God.”—DANIEL 
 Be 25, eu. 
 
 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy 
 Saviour; I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and 
 Seba for thee. ~ 
 
 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, 
 your King.—ISAIAH 43: 3, 15. 
 
 And he said, The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and 
 my deliverer. 
 
 For who is God, save the Lord? and who 1s a rock, 
 save our God?—II SAMUEL 22: 2, 32. 
 
 And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon 
 this rock I will build my church; and the gates 
 of hell shall not prevail against it—MAaATTHEW 
 16: 18. 
 
 HIS OWN RECEIVE HIM NOT 
 
 The apostle Paul writes: ‘For the love of Christ 
 constraineth us.” God is love. This love of God 
 in Christ will surely constrain His chosen people. 
 Has the terrible persecution which has befallen the 
 chosen people been of God’s choosing? Surely 
 not! The choice was made by God’s chosen 
 
 people. 
 For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus 
 
 judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead.— 
 II CORINTHIANS 5: 14. 
 
 Pilate saith unto them, What shall I do then with Jesus 
 which is called Christ? They all say unto nim, Let 
 him be crucified. 
 
ADAM 20 
 
 And the governor said, Why, what evil hath he done? 
 But they cried out the more, saying, Let him be 
 crucified, 
 
 When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that 
 rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed 
 his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent 
 of the blood of this just person; see ye to it. 
 
 Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be 
 on us, and on our children—MATTHEW 27: 22, 23, 
 
 Dana ke. 
 
 The One who created Adam also so loved his 
 chosen people, that he purchased them after man 
 transferred his allegiance to Satan in the Garden 
 of Eden. 
 
 Is it not true that “Emmanuel” is ‘God with 
 us”? 
 
 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
 the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
 name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
 Peace. 
 
 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
 be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
 kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
 ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.— 
 ISAIAH 9: 6, 7. 
 
 Jesus Christ said that His disciples should be his 
 witnesses. 
 
 Then opened he their understanding, that they might 
 understand the scriptures. 
 
30 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it 
 behoved Christ, and to rise from the dead the third 
 day: 
 
 And that repentance and remission of sins should be 
 preached in his name among all nations, beginning 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
 And ye are witnesses of these things—LUKE 24: 45, 
 
 46, 47, 48. 
 Here we have the witnessing of St. John: 
 
 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with 
 God, and the Word was God. 
 
 The same was in the beginning with God... . 
 
 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 
 
 But as many as received him, to them he gave power 
 to become the sons of God, even to them that believe 
 on his name. 
 
 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the 
 flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 
 
 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
 (and we beheld his glory, and the glory as of the 
 only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 
 —JOHN I: I, 2, II, 12, 13, 14. 
 
 The first Adam, our ancestor, a son of God (not 
 the only begotten Son of God, the second Adam) 
 talked with God and knew of God as His Creator, 
 but not so closely as to know Him as His Father 
 in Heaven. 
 
 Adam was turned out of Eden, that he might, if 
 he would, come to the Father, through the Son, by 
 His cross. 
 
 Israel and all the world whom God loved must 
 come that way if they will come: 
 
ADAM at 
 
 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
 of the Lord revealed? ... 
 
 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
 every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid 
 on him the iniquity of us ali—IsAIAH 53:1, 6. 
 
 Be it known unto you all, and to all the people of Israel, 
 that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom 
 ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even 
 by him doth this man stand here before you whole. 
 
 This is the stone which was set at nought of you 
 builders, which is become the head of the corner. 
 
 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is 
 none other name under heaven given among men, 
 whereby we must be saved.—ACTS 4: 10, II, 12. 
 
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only 
 begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
 not perish, but have everlasting life—JOHN 3: 16. 
 
 THERE WILL BE LAST DAYS 
 
 It would seem impossible that Israel would now 
 rejoice in the spirit that once rejected Him, al- 
 though they still reject Him. Yet we are deeply 
 impressed with the expression from the Bible as to 
 a generation which may refer to part of Abraham’s 
 descendants in the last days: 
 
 But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall 
 be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, 
 And the stars of heaven shall fall, and the powers that 
 
 are in heaven shall be shaken. 
 And then shall they see the Son of man coming in 
 the clouds with great power and glory. 
 
32 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And then shall he send his angels, and shall gather 
 together his elect from the four winds, from the 
 uttermost part of the earth to the uttermost part of 
 heaven. 
 
 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When her branch 
 is yet tender and putteth forth leaves, ye know that 
 summer 1s near: 
 
 So ye in like manner, when ye shall see these things 
 come to pass, know that it is nigh, even at the doors. 
 
 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not 
 pass, till all these things be done. 
 
 Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my word shall 
 not pass away. 
 
 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, 
 not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, 
 but the Father. 
 
 Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when 
 the time 1s —MARK 13: 24-33. 
 
 A SIGN GIVEN TO THE HOUSE OF DAVID 
 
 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a 
 small thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary 
 my God also? 
 
 EMMANUEL—GOD WITH US—IS THE MESSIAH 
 
 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Be- 
 hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall 
 call his name Immanuel.—IsAIAH 7: 13, 14. 
 
 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
 forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
 which being interpreted is, God with us—MATTHEW 
 jee kos 
 
ADAM 33 
 
 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, 
 (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only 
 begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth— 
 JOHN I: 14. 
 
 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, 
 that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have 
 crucified, both Lord and Christ. 
 
 Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their 
 heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the 
 apostles, Men and brethren what shall we do? 
 
 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized 
 every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ, for the 
 remission of sins, and ye Shall receive the gift of the 
 Holy Ghost. 
 
 For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and 
 to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord 
 our God shall call. 
 
 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, 
 saying, Save yourselves from this untoward genera- 
 tion.— ACTS 2: 36, 37, 38, 39, 40. 
 
 Adam was a son of God by creation, but there is 
 a God-man, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of 
 God. 
 
 I wyll declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
 Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
 inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for 
 
 thy possession—PSsa_M 2: 7, 8. 
 
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
 gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
 not perish, but have everlasting life—JoHN 3: 16. 
 
34 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Had God created man a being possessing knowl- 
 edge of good and evil and in that respect as like the 
 Godhead, man would not be, as he is, capable of 
 partaking of Christ through faith. So when he par- 
 took of the fruit of the tree he was turned out of 
 the Garden. 
 
 In Schechter’s ‘Studies in Judaism’? we read on 
 page 152: “It is true that we do not find in the 
 Scripture such words as: ‘You are commanded 
 to believe in the existence of God.’” But that 
 Schechter is mistaken the following Scripture 
 shows: 
 
 And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into 
 the wilderness of Tekoa; and as they went forth, 
 Jehoshaphat siood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and 
 ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your 
 God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, 
 so Shall ye prosper—I1 CHRONICLES 20: 20. 
 
 And the Lord said unto him, What is that in thine hand? 
 And he said, A rod. 
 
 And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it 
 on the ground, and it became a serpent; and Moses 
 fled from before tt. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Moses, Put forth thine hand, 
 and take it by the tail. And he put forth his hand, 
 and caught it, and it became a rod in his hand: 
 
 That they may believe that the Lord God of their 
 fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and 
 the God of Jacob, hath appeared unto thee— 
 EXODUS*A? 2, 35:4, 5- 
 
 And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee 
 in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I 
 
ADAM . 35 
 
 speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And 
 Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.— 
 EXODUS 19: 9. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Moses, How long will this people 
 provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe 
 me, for all the signs which I have shewed among 
 them?—-NUMBERS 14: II. 
 
 God, the Redeemer, demanded belief in Himself. 
 There can arise no God after Him who was not 
 Himself God in the beginning. The Messiah of 
 God has come in Jesus Christ, the Redeemer. Here 
 the Scripture is given that declares it: 
 
 GOD’S WITNESSES 
 
 Ve are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
 whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe 
 me, and understand that I am he: before me there 
 was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 
 
 I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
 Saviour. 
 
 I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, 
 when there was no strange god among you: therefore 
 ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God. 
 
 Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none 
 that I can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and 
 who shall let 1t? 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of 
 Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and 
 have brought down all their nobles, and the Chal- 
 deans, whose cry is in the ships. 
 
 I am the Lord, your Holy One, the creator of Israel, 
 your King.—ISAIAH 43: IO-I5. 
 
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 God, the Father, is a spiritual being, a spiritual 
 personage, having a personality who speaks, who 
 walks, who moves upon the waters, who sees, who 
 loves, who hates, who is a being, a person, became 
 flesh and man, was created in His image, and Jesus 
 Christ was begotten in the express image of His 
 person. | 
 
 And the earth was without form, and void; and dark- 
 ness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit 
 of God moved upon the face of the waters. 
 
 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. — 
 GENESIS I: 2, 3. 
 
 Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express 
 image of his person, and upholding all things by the 
 word of his power, when he had by himself purged 
 our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty 
 on high—HEBREWS I: 3. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
 speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into 
 the camp: but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, 
 a young man, departed not out of the tabernacle. ... 
 
 And he said, My presence shall go with thee, and I 
 will give thee rest... . 
 
 And the Lord said, Behold, there is a place by me, and 
 thou shalt stand upon a rock: 
 
 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, 
 that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will 
 cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 
 
 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my 
 back parts: but my face shali not be seen-——-Exopus 
 ZEriTT SLA Wed Ese Duo 
 
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 ADAM 37 
 
 This was the only begotten Son of God who thus 
 spake unto Moses, For no man shall see God the 
 Father and live: Moses saw the face of Him whose 
 glory was with the Father before the world was and 
 lived. 
 
 And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own 
 self with the glory which I had with thee before the 
 world was. 
 
 Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, 
 be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
 glory, which thou hast given me: for thou lovedst me 
 before the foundation of the world——JoHN 17: 5, 24. 
 
 The heavens declare the glory of God the Father, 
 but his face man hath not seen, save the God man, 
 Christ Jesus, unto whom is given His power and 
 Godhead. 
 
 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
 nent sheweth his handywork. 
 
 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night 
 sheweth knowledge. 
 
 There is no speech nor language, where their voice ts 
 not heard.—PSALM 19: I, 2, 3. 
 
 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
 with him until the breaking of the day... . 
 
 And Jacob called the name of the place Pentel: for 1 
 have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
 —GENESIS 32: 24, 30. 
 
 He is the only begotten Son of the Father, whom 
 Jacob wrestled with at Bethel. Man created in the 
 
38 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 image of the Deity must have some resemblance 
 to Him, and as the Word was God and was made 
 flesh, we bear a form (a body) like Jesus Christ, in 
 some respects,—the Word made flesh. 
 
 And God went up from him in the place where he talked 
 with him. i 
 
 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked 
 with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a 
 drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 
 
 And Jacob called the name of the place where God 
 spake with him, Beth-el—GENESIS 35: 13, 14, 15. 
 
 Yea, he had power over the angel, and prevailed: he 
 wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him 
 in Beth-el, and there he spake with us; 
 
 Even the Lord Gad of hosts; the Lord is his memorial. 
 
 Therejore turn thou to thy God: keep mercy and judg- 
 ment, and wait on thy God continually.—HosrEa 
 TAs (Ay iGe 
 
 I am the God of Beth-el, where thou anointedst the 
 pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow. unto me: now 
 arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto 
 the land of thy kindred.—GENESIS 31: 13. 
 
 When He comes again to receive us, we shall be 
 like him. 
 
 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up 
 together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord 
 in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.— 
 I THESSALONIANS 4: I7. 
 
 Jesus witnesses to His Deity before the High 
 Priest: 
 
ADAM 39 
 
 But he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again 
 the high priest asked him and said unto him, Ari 
 thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? 
 
 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man 
 sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in 
 the clouds of heavenn—MArk 14: 61, 62. 
 
 JACOB’S PROPHECY OF SHILOH 
 
 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather your- 
 selves together, that I may tell you that which shall 
 befall you in the last days. 
 
 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
 and hearken unto Israel your father... . 
 
 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
 giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
 unto him shall the gathering of the people be— 
 GENESIS 49: I, 2, I0. 
 
 And there was war in heaven; Michael and his angels 
 fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought 
 and his angels REVELATION I2: 7. 
 
 And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great 
 things and blasphemies; and power was given unto 
 him to continue forty and two months. 
 
 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to 
 blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them 
 that dwell in heaven. 
 
 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, 
 and to overcome them; and power was given him over 
 all kindreds, and tongues, and nations. 
 
 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, 
 whose names are not written in the book of life of 
 the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. 
 
 If any man have an ear, let him hear-—REVELATION 
 
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 DANIEL’S PRAYER FOR GOD’S PEOPLE AND GOD’S CITY 
 
 And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer 
 and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and 
 ashes: 
 
 And I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made my con- 
 fessions, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful 
 God, keeping the-covenant and mercy to them that 
 love him, and to them that keep his commandments ; 
 
 We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have 
 done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing 
 from thy precepts, and from thy judgments: 
 
 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the 
 prophets, which spake in thy name to our kings, our 
 princes, and our fathers, and to all the people of the 
 land. 
 
 O Lord, righteousness belongeth unto thee, but unto us 
 confusion of faces, as at this day; to the men of 
 Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and unto 
 all Israel, that are near, and that are far off, through 
 all the countries whither thou hast driven them, be- 
 cause of their trespass that they have trespassed 
 against thee. 
 
 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, 
 to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have 
 sinned against thee, 
 
 To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, 
 though we have rebelled against him; 
 
 Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, 
 to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his 
 servants the prophets. 
 
 Yea, all Israel have transgressed thy law, even by de- 
 parting, that they might not obey thy voice; there- 
 fore the curse is poured upon us, and the oath that ts 
 written in the law of Moses the servant of God, be- 
 cause we have sinned against him. 
 
ADAM AI 
 
 And he hath confirmed his words, which he spake 
 against us, and against our judges that judged us, by 
 bringing upon us a great evil: for under the whole 
 heaven hath not been done as hath been done upon 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 As it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come 
 upon us; yet made we not our prayer before the Lord 
 our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and 
 understand thy truth. 
 
 Therefore hath the Lord waiched upon the evil, and 
 brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous 
 in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not 
 his voice. 
 
 And now, O Lord our God, that hast brought thy people 
 forth out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, 
 and hast gotten thee renown, as at this day; we have 
 sinned, we have done wickedly. 
 
 O Lord, according to all thy righteousness, I beseech 
 thee, let thine anger and thy fury be turned away 
 from thy city Jerusalem, thy holy mountain: because 
 for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, 
 Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to 
 all that are about us. 
 
 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy 
 servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to 
 shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the 
 Lord’s sake. 
 
 O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, 
 and behold our desolation, and the city which is 
 called by thy name; for we do not present our suppli- 
 cations before thee for our righteousnesses, but for 
 thy great mercies. 
 
 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and 
 do; defer not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy 
 city and thy people are called by thy name.—DANIEL 
 9: 3-19. 
 
42 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth 
 his secret unto his servants the prophets—Amos 
 
 eee p 
 
 And Jacob called unto his sons, and said, Gather your- 
 selves together, that I may tell you that which shall 
 befall you in the last days. 
 
 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
 and hearken unto Israel your father... . 
 
 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver 
 from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto 
 him shall the gathering of the people be——GENESIS 
 AY 8D) aww il Os 
 
II 
 
 AFTER MANY DAYS 
 HE Prince of Peace is to come in the later 
 days, even Jesus Christ: 
 
 Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from 
 far; The Lord hath called me from the womb; from 
 the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my 
 name. 
 
 And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in 
 the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me 
 a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me; 
 
 And said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in 
 whom I will be glorified. 
 
 Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have speni my 
 strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judg- 
 ment is with the Lord, and my work with my God. 
 
 And now, saith the Lord that formed me from the womb 
 to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though 
 Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the 
 eyes of the Lord, and my God shall be my strength. 
 
 And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be 
 my servant to raise up the tribes of Jucob, and to 
 restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee 
 for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my 
 salvation unto the end of the earth.—IsatAH 49: 1-6. 
 
 For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall 
 stand at the latter day upon the earth-—-JoB 19: 25. 
 43 
 
44 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 After many days thou shalt be visited: In the latter 
 years thou shalt come into the land that is brought 
 back from the sword, and is gathered out of many 
 people, against the mountains of Israel, which have 
 been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the 
 nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them— 
 EZEKIEL 38: 8. 
 
 THE OLD AND THE NEW COVENANT 
 
 The last will and testament of a man can only 
 be probated after his death, so Jesus Christ made 
 a New Testament, which made the first testament 
 not effective because of the new and last one. 
 
 In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the 
 first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old 
 is ready to vanish away.— HEBREWS 8: 13. 
 
 Then verily the first covenant had also ordinances of 
 divine service, and a worldly sanctuary. 
 
 For there was a tabernacle made; the first, wherein was 
 the candlestick, and the table, and the shewbread; 
 which is called the sanctuary. 
 
 And after the second veil, the tabernacle which is called 
 the Holtest of all... . 
 
 Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests 
 went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing 
 the service of God. 
 
 But into the second went the high priest alone once 
 every year, not without blood, which he offered for 
 himself, and for the errors of the people: 
 
 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the 
 holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the 
 first tabernacle was yet standing: 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 45 
 
 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which 
 were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not 
 make him that did the service Per ieat, as pertaining 
 to the conscience ; 
 
 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers wash- 
 ings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until 
 the time of reformation. 
 
 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to 
 come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not 
 made with hands, that is to say, not of this build- 
 ing; 
 
 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 
 own blood he entered in once into the holy place, 
 having obtained eternal redemption for us. 
 
 For tf the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes of an 
 heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the puri- 
 fying of the flesh: 
 
 How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 
 the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, 
 purge your conscience from dead works to serve the 
 living God?—HEBREWS 9:1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 
 DUNT OLA. 
 
 When God created the heavens and the earth, 
 Man was his greatest work. The High Priest alone 
 went into the Second Tabernacle, not without blood, 
 to cleanse in a figure the greatest of God’s creation 
 —Man. Ina figure the blood of goats and calves 
 was not the best. God gave His only begotten Son. 
 Now we are clean through the Word which He has 
 spoken to Jew and Gentile. 
 
 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken 
 unto you.—JOHN 15: 3. 
 
46 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 In Jeremiah, thirteenth chapter, we find these 
 words: 
 
 Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made 
 clean? when shall it once be? or as the margin has it 
 after when yet? 
 
 David, the King_and Prophet, wanted God to 
 make a new creation in him. 
 
 Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right 
 spirit within me.—PSALM 5I: Io. 
 
 For by one offering he hath perfected forever them that 
 are sanctified —HEBREWS 10: I4. 
 
 And in the process of time it came to pass, that Cain 
 brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto 
 the Lord. 
 
 And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock 
 and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect 
 unto Abel and to his offering. 
 
 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. 
 And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 
 —GENESIS 4: 3, 4, 5. 
 
 By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice 
 than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was 
 righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he 
 being dead yet speaketh. 
 
 By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see 
 death; and was not found, because God had trans- 
 lated him: for before his translation he had this testi- 
 mony, that he pleased God.—HEBREWS ITI: 4, 5. 
 
 Why may not Israel have this joy? 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 47 
 
 Fulfl ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the 
 same love, being of one accord, of one mind.— 
 PHILIPPIANS 2: 2. 
 
 ZION 
 
 But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the moun- 
 tain of the house of the Lord shall be established in 
 the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above 
 the hills; and people shall flow unto it. 
 
 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let 
 us go up to the mountain of the Lord, and to the 
 house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his 
 ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall 
 go forth of Zion, and the word of the Lord from 
 Jerusalem.—MIcaH 4: I, 2. 
 
 We are now in the latter days mentioned in the 
 Old Testament and in the New Testament, under 
 the new covenant. The time of Jesus Christ, the 
 second Adam. 
 
 God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake 
 in time past unto the fathers by the prophets. 
 
 Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, 
 whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom 
 also he made the worlds HEBREWS I: 1, 2. 
 
 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again. 
 
 Martha said unto him, I know that he shall rise again 
 in the resurrection of the last day. 
 
 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: 
 he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet 
 Shaul He Myers. . 
 
 She said unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art 
 
48 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into 
 the world.—JOHN I1: 23, 24, 25, 27. 
 
 Paul the “apostle” of Jesus Christ gave admoni- 
 tion to the young Timothy as follows: 
 
 This know also, that in the last days perilous times 
 shall come. 
 
 But continue thou in the things which thou hast learned 
 and hast been assured of, knowing of whom thou 
 hast learned them. .. . 
 
 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scrip- 
 tures, which are able to make thee wise unto salva- 
 tion through faith which ts in Christ Jesus. 
 
 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
 instruction in righteousness: 
 
 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly fur- 
 nished unto all good works——II TIMoTHY 3:1, 14, 
 AEE gg oy I 
 
 ISRAEL NOT CAST AWAY BUT SAVED BY GRACE 
 
 In his epistle to the Romans, Paul writes of the 
 salvation by the grace of God, through faith, of 
 both Jews and Gentiles: 
 
 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God for- 
 bid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abra- 
 ham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 
 
 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. 
 Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how 
 he maketh intercession to God against Israel, say- 
 
 ing, 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 49 
 
 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down 
 thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my 
 life—ROMANS II: I, 2, 3. 
 
 God predestinated those He foreknew to be con- 
 formed to the image of his Son. 
 
 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to 
 be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 
 be the firstborn among many brethren—ROMANS 
 B20, 
 
 In the epistle of Paul to the Romans, we are also 
 informed that those elected by grace cannot be 
 elected by works. 
 
 But what saith the answer of God unto him? TI have 
 reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have 
 not bowed the knee to the image of Baal. 
 
 Even so then at this present time also there is a rem- 
 nant according to the election of grace. 
 
 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: other- 
 wise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, 
 then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more 
 work. 
 
 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
 seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the 
 rest were blinded.—RoMANS IT: 4, 5, 6, 7. 
 
 Paul writing to the Romans, refers to the proph- 
 ecy of David: 
 
 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and 
 a trap, and a stumbling block, and a recompense unto 
 them. 
 
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 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and 
 bow down their back alway. 
 
 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
 God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is 
 come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jeal- 
 OUuSY. 
 
 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and 
 the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; 
 how much more their fulness?—-ROMANS II: 9, I0, 
 TU 4a 2) 
 
 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heavi- 
 ness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there 
 was none; and for comforters, but I found none. 
 
 They gave me also gall for my meat; and in my thirst 
 they gave me vinegar to drink. 
 
 Let their table become a snare before them; and that 
 which should have been for their welfare, let 1t become 
 a trap. 
 
 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not: and make 
 their loins continually to shake-—PSALM 69: 20, 21, 
 ve wa EY 
 
 And Paul likens the Roman Gentiles to a wild 
 olive tree: 
 
 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the 
 apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 
 
 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which 
 are my flesh, and might save some of them. 
 
 For if by casting away of them be the reconciling of 
 the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but 
 life from the dead? 
 
 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and 
 if the root be holy, so are the branches. 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 51 
 
 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, 
 being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, 
 and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the 
 olive tree.— ROMANS II: 13, 14, I5, 16, 17. 
 
 And, again, the apostle to the Gentiles mentions 
 the goodness of God toward them and to the good- 
 ness of God to the Jews if they remain not in un- 
 belief. 
 
 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and 
 thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 
 
 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed 
 lest he also spare not thee. 
 
 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on 
 them which fell, severity; but towards thee, good- 
 ness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou 
 also shalt be cut off. 
 
 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall 
 be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 
 
 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild 
 by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into 
 a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which 
 be the natural branches, be graffed into their own 
 olive tree? 
 
 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of 
 this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own con- 
 ceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, 
 unit the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.—ROMANS 
 PEzOu2 hy zat 2e aA r6a 6. 
 
 Israel is mentioned as the firstfruits of the Lord’s 
 increase. 
 
 Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits 
 of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; 
 
52 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.... 
 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, 
 and with your children’s children will I plead... . 
 Hath a nation changed their gods, which are yet no 
 gods? but my people have changed thei glory for 
 that which doth not profit?—JEREMIAH 2: 3, 9, II. 
 
 And we find in the law that firstfruits were to 
 become the Lord’s portion. 
 
 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits, 
 and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt 
 thou give unto me.—EXODUS 22: 29. 
 
 The firstfruit also of thy corn, of thy wine, and of 
 thine oil, and the first of the fleece of thy sheep, shalt 
 thou give him.—DEUTERONOMY 18: 4. 
 
 But the Gospel turns from the law to grace, from 
 the flesh to the spirit, from Moses to the Christ 
 he prophesied of. 
 
 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the 
 firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan 
 within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the 
 redemption of our body.—RoOMANS 8: 23. 
 
 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that 
 we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.— 
 JAMES 1: 18, 
 
 Grace and Truth came by Jesus Christ. 
 
 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth 
 came by Jesus Christ. 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 53 
 
 No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten 
 Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath 
 declared him.—JOHN 1:17, 18. 
 
 But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the 
 firstfruits of them that slept —I CoRINTHIANS I5: 20. 
 
 What is meant by the words of the writer of 
 the epistles to the Hebrews? 
 
 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump also is holy: and 
 _ if the root be holy, so are the branches ——RoMANS 
 OL 6 
 
 Is it not that if Christ is holy, His firstfruits are 
 holy also, seeing He is One with the Father? 
 
 THE REDEEMER 
 
 Is it possible to construe the word ‘‘Redeemer” 
 into any other meaning than one who redeems, who 
 pays the demand, who gives an equivalent for what 
 is pledged? Why, is not for man to say. Sufficient 
 is it to know that we are bought, and that the 
 price is paid: 
 
 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the 
 Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens 
 of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their 
 bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out 
 arm, and with great judgments.—EXoDUS 6: 6. 
 
 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
 of the Lord revealed? 
 
54. THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant,, 
 and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form 
 nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no 
 beauty that we should desire him. 
 
 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, 
 and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our 
 faces from him; he was despised and we esteemed 
 him not. 
 
 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
 rows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitien of God, 
 and afflicted. 
 
 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
 bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
 peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are 
 healed. 
 
 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned 
 every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on 
 him the iniquity of us all. 
 
 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened 
 not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaugh- 
 ter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so 
 he openeth not his mouth. 
 
 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who 
 Shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of 
 the land of the living; for the transgression of my 
 people was he stricken. 
 
 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the 
 rich in his death; because he had done no violence, 
 neither was any deceit in his mouth. 
 
 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise him; he hath put him 
 to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering 
 for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, 
 and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. 
 
 He shall see the travail of his soul, and shall be satis- 
 fied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant 
 justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 55 
 
 Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, 
 and he shall divide the spoil with the strong: because 
 he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was 
 numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin 
 of many, and made intercession for the transgressors. 
 —ISAIAH 53: I-12. 
 
 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the 
 sons of Jacob and Joseph.—PSALM 77: 15. 
 
 But now saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, 
 and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I 
 have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; 
 thou art mine.—ISAIAH 43: I. 
 
 Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of 
 Jerusalem: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he 
 hath redeemed Jerusalem.—ISAIAH 52: 9. 
 
 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that 
 will not lie; so he was their Saviour. 
 
 In all thew affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of 
 his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity 
 he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried 
 them all the days of old. 
 
 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore 
 he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought 
 against them. 
 
 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his 
 people, saying, Where is he that brought them up 
 out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where 
 is he that put his holy Spirit within him? 
 
 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his 
 glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to 
 make himself an everlasting name?—IsAIAH 63: 8, 9, 
 Us Bh Sais 3 
 
56 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will 
 redeem them from death: O death, I will be thy 
 plagues; O grave, I will be thy destruction: repent- 
 ance shall be hid from mine eyes——HOSEA 13: I4. 
 
 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy 
 victory?—I CORINTHIANS I5: 55. 
 
 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into 
 Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? 
 
 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into 
 death: that like as Christ was raised up from the 
 dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also 
 should walk in newness of life. 
 
 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of 
 his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resur- 
 rection: 
 
 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, 
 that the body of sin may be destroyed, that hence- 
 forth we should not serve sin. 
 
 For he that is dead is freed from sin. 
 
 Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall 
 also live with him——RoMANS 6: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so 
 also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, 
 it shall die-—EZEKIEL 18: 4. 
 
 Behold the man! 
 
 Then came Jesus forth, wearing the crown of thorns, 
 and the purple robe. And Pilate saith unto them, 
 Behold the man! 
 
 When the chief priests therefore and officers saw him, 
 they cried out, saying, Crucify him, crucify him. 
 Pilate saith unto them, 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 57 
 
 Take ye him, and tee him: hi I find no fault in 
 him —Joun 19: 5, 6 
 
 THE SECOND ADAM 
 
 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made 
 a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening 
 spirit. 
 
 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that 
 which is natural; and afterwards that which is spir- 
 itual. 
 
 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is 
 the Lord from Heaven.—I CORINTHIANS I5: 45, 46, 
 
 47. 
 “Behold I make all things new!” 
 
 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make ali 
 things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these 
 words are true and faithful—REVELATION 21: 5. 
 
 Let us answer Isaiah’s question, “Who hath be- 
 lieved our report and to whom is the arm of the 
 Lord revealed?” 
 
 What man assuming to be a King, beside Jesus 
 Christ, “the King of the Jews” has ever sought to 
 be exalted among men who did not expect to live, 
 and hoped to live and rejoice in the honours he 
 sought. But here was a man who knew He was 
 sent of God the Father, to die for mankind and 
 set about his Father’s business at twelve years of 
 age and set His face like a flint to meet that death 
 at Jerusalem. 
 
58 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
 Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through 
 all the region round about. 
 
 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of 
 all, 
 
 And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought 
 up: and, as his custom was, he went into the syn- 
 agogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to 
 read. 
 
 And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
 prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, 
 he found the place where it was written, 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
 anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath 
 sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliver- 
 ance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the 
 blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 
 
 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. 
 
 And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the 
 minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them 
 that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.— 
 LUKE 4: I4-20. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
 Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 
 the meek: he hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
 hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 
 opening of the prison to them that are bound. 
 
 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
 day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that 
 mourn. 
 
 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto 
 them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, 
 the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 
 that they might be called trees of righteousness, the 
 planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 59 
 
 And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up 
 the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste 
 cities, the desolations of many generations. 
 
 And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the 
 sons of the alien shall be your plowmen and your vine 
 dressers. 
 
 But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men 
 shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall 
 eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall 
 ye boast yourselves—ISAIAH 61: 1-6. 
 
 And he said unto them, How ts it that ye sought me? 
 wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s busi- 
 ness?—LUKE 2: 49. 
 
 Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the 
 name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters 
 of Judah, which swear by the name of the Lord, and 
 make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, 
 nor in righteousness. 
 
 For they shall call themselves of the holy city, and 
 stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of 
 hosts is his name... . 
 
 For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for 
 my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not 
 iy | eee 
 
 Hearken unto me, O Jacob and Israel, my called; I am 
 he; I am the first, I also am the last... . 
 
 All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among 
 them hath declared these things? The Lord hath 
 loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his 
 arm shall be on the Chaldeans... . 
 
 Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken 
 in secret from the beginning; from that time it was, 
 there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit 
 hath sent me.—IsalaH 48: I, 2, 9, 12, 14, 16. 
 
60 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the 
 world; but that the world through him might be 
 saved.—JOHN 3:17. 
 
 He sent redemption unto his people: he hath com- 
 manded his covenant for ever: holy and reverend is 
 his name.—PSAaLM III: 9. 
 
 For the Lord God will help me; therefore shall I not 
 be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a 
 flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.— 
 ISAIAH 50: 7. 
 
 The life is more than meat, and the body is more than 
 raiment. 
 
 Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good 
 pleasure to give you the kingdom.—LUKE 12: 23, 32. 
 
 The apostle John in his first epistle General; 
 second chapter, asserts in strong terms that not to 
 know the Son (that is, to deny Him) is evidence by 
 those who deny him that they do not know the 
 Father. 
 
 Whosoever denieth the Son, the same hath not the 
 Father: (but) he that acknowledgeth the Son hath 
 the Father also—I JouN 2: 23. 
 
 BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST 
 
 Note that it is not ‘a Son” as Adam was, but 
 “The Son,” thereby referring to the only begotten 
 Son of the Father, Jesus Christ. 
 
 I and my Father are one.—JOHN I0: 30. 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 61 
 
 Having yet therefore one son, his welibeloved, he sent 
 him also last unto them, saying, They will reverence 
 my son.—MARK 12: 6. 
 
 There is no middle path marked out in Scripture 
 - leading to salvation. Jesus Christ is the way. 
 
 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gath- 
 ereth not with me scattereth abroad —MAtTITHEew 
 12: 30. 
 
 The New Testament, the New Covenant, is al- 
 ways true to Jewish prophets. 
 
 And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of 
 stumbling and for a rock of offence to both houses 
 of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants 
 of Jerusalem. 
 
 And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be 
 broken, and be snared, and be taken. 
 
 Bind up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples. 
 And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face 
 from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. 
 Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given 
 me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the 
 Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.— 
 
 IsaAIAH 8: 14-18. 
 
 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name 
 was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, 
 waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy 
 Ghost was upon him. 
 
 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that 
 he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord’s 
 Christ. 
 
62 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And he came by the Spirit into the temple; and when 
 the parents brought him the child Jesus, to do for 
 him after the custom of the law. 
 
 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and 
 said, 
 
 Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, ac- 
 cording to thy word: 
 
 For mine eyes have seen thy salvation; 
 
 Which thou hast prepared before the face of all people; 
 
 A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy 
 people Israel —LUKE 2: 25-32. 
 
 Was it not a miracle that Isaac was given to 
 Abraham and Sarah in their old age? Could not 
 the Virgin Mary likewise bear a Son by the Spirit 
 of God, who ordained both births—the first and 
 new covenant: 
 
 And Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh, so that all 
 that hear will laugh with me. 
 
 And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, 
 that Sarah should have given children suck? for I 
 have born him a son in his old age.—GENESIS 21: 6, 7. 
 
 Does it require more faith to believe that God 
 (who created Adam) could bring to birth from a 
 virgin a second Adam, than that faith which was 
 given Abraham when he offered up Isaac, his only 
 son—the son of promise? 
 
 I will set his hand also in the sea, and his right hand in 
 the rivers. 
 
 He shall cry unto me, Thou art my Father, my God, 
 and the rock of my salvation. 
 
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 Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the 
 kings of the earth, 
 
 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my 
 covenant shall stand fast with him. 
 
 His seed also will I make to endure forever, and his 
 throne as the days of heaven.—PsaLmM 89: 25, 26, 
 ay PRE BBE Aa 
 
 What house, except the Lord’s own house, could 
 fulfil the prophecies of David? 
 
 Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto thy servant 
 David, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, I took thee from 
 the sheepcote, even from following the sheep, that 
 thou shouldest be ruler over my people Israel... . 
 
 And it shall come to pass, when thy days be expired that 
 thou must go to be with thy fathers, that I wil 
 raise up thy seed afier thee, which shall be of thy 
 sons; and I will establish his kingdom. 
 
 He shall build me an house, and I will stablish his 
 throne for ever. ... 
 
 And David the king came and sat before the Lord, and 
 said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is mine house, 
 that thou hast brought me hitherto? ... 
 
 O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine 
 own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in mak- 
 ing known all these great things. 
 
 And what one nation in the earth is like thy people 
 Israel, whom God went to redeem to be his own 
 people, to make thee a name of greatness and terrible- 
 ness by driving out the nations from before thy 
 people, whom thou hast redeemed out of Egypt? 
 
 For thy people Israel didst thou make thine own people 
 for ever; and thou, Lord, becamest their God.—I 
 CHRONICLES 17:'7, II, 12, 16, 19, 21, 22. 
 
64 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 It should be noticed that the seed which should 
 be raised after David was to be later than his sons, 
 and his kingdom should be established. David’s 
 house in the seventeenth verse is spoken of “for a 
 great while to come,’—Solomon’s house was nigh, 
 next to David, therefore it was not Solomon’s reign 
 that is here referred to, but Jesus Christ’s. 
 
 The Old and the New Testaments agree as being 
 the word of God: 
 
 And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and 
 bring forth a son, and shall call his name Jesus. 
 He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the 
 Highest; and the Lord God shall give unto him the 
 
 throne of his father David.—LUKE 1: 31, 32. 
 
 According to the word that I covenanted with you when 
 ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among 
 you: fear ye not. 
 
 For thus saith the Lord of hosts; Vet once, it is a little 
 while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, 
 and the sea, and the dry land; 
 
 And I will shake all nations, and the desire of all na- 
 tions shall come: and I will fill this house with glory, 
 saith the Lord of hosts. 
 
 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord 
 of hosts. 
 
 The glory of this latter house shall be greater than the 
 former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will 
 I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts —WHaccat 2: 5-9. 
 
 The Scripture is perfect in its agreements; it 
 cannot be broken: 
 
AFTER MANY DAYS 65 
 
 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
 giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and 
 unto him shall the gathering of the people be— 
 GENESIS 49: I0. 
 
 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but 
 not nigh: there shall come a star out of Jacob, and 
 a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the 
 corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of 
 Sheth-——NUMBERS 24: 17. 
 
 And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and 
 the firstbegotten of the dead, and the prince of the 
 kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and 
 washed us from our sins in his own blood. 
 
 And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his 
 Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and 
 ever. Amen. 
 
 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall 
 see him, and they also which pierced him; and all 
 kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. 
 Even so, Amen. 
 
 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, 
 saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which 
 is to come, the Almighty—REVELATION I: 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these 
 things in the churches. I am the root and the off- 
 spring of David, and the bright and morning star.— 
 REVELATION 22: 16. 
 
 All Scripture must be fulfilled. 
 
 But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets 
 might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, 
 and fled—MATTHEW 26: 56. 
 
66 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God 
 came, and the scripture cannot be broken. 
 
 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and 
 sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I 
 said, I am the Son of God. 
 
 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.— 
 
 JoHN 10: 35, 36, 37. 
 
 And again another scripture saith, They shall lcok on 
 him whom they pierced—JOHN 19: 37. 
 
 For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the 
 wicked have enclosed me: they pierced my hands and 
 my feet—PSALM 22: 16. 
 
 Jesus is the morning star that shone above all 
 others, the only begotten Son. 
 
 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons 
 of God shouted for joy?—JoB 38: 7. 
 
 The apostle John very earnestly pleads in his 
 first letter, that to deny that Jesus is the Christ 
 (I John, second chapter) places all who do so in 
 opposition to the truth. John, in his gospel by 
 inspiration of the Holy Spirit, writes of the ful- 
 filment of the Tabernacle and of the New Covenant 
 made by the Lord. 
 
 And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will 
 be their God. 
 
 And they shall know that I am the Lord their God, 
 that brought them out of the land of Egypt, that I 
 may dwell among them: I am the Lord their God.— 
 EXODUS 29: 45, 46. 
 
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 Also the Covenant proclaimed by the prophet 
 Isaiah. 
 
 And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the 
 mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in 
 the top of the mountains, and shali be exalted above 
 the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. 
 
 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us 
 go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of 
 the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, 
 and we will walk in his paths; for out of Zion shall 
 go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from 
 Jerusalem. 
 
 And he shall judge among the nations, and shall rebuke 
 many people: and they shall beat their swords into 
 plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: na- 
 tion shall not lift up sword against nation, neither 
 shall they learn war any more.—ISAIAH 2: 2, 3, 4. 
 
 This is also proclaimed by Jesus Christ when He 
 (the Word) was made Flesh, in His book of 
 Revelation. 
 
 And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make 
 all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for 
 these words are true and faithful. 
 
 And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and 
 Omega; the beginning and the end. I will give unto 
 him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of 
 life freely. 
 
 He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will 
 be his God, and he shall be my son—REVELATION 
 
 Aes Oy en]: 
 
 He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High 
 shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 
 
68 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: 
 my God; in him will I trust. 
 
 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, 
 and from the noisome pestilence.—-PSALM QI: I, 2, 3. 
 
 There is a Redeemer in the Godhead. Not only 
 will be, but 7s, as is written of Him: “I am the first 
 and the last.” 
 
 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his re- 
 deemer the Lord of hosts; Iam the first, and Iamthe | 
 last; and beside me there is no God. 
 
 And who, as I, shali call, and shall declare it, and set it 
 in order for me, since I appointed the ancient people? 
 and the things that are coming, and shall come, let 
 them shew unto them. 
 
 Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from 
 that time, and have declared it? ye are even my 
 witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is 
 no God: I know not any.—ISAiAH 44: 6, 7, 8. 
 
 While the Pharisees were gathered, Jesus asked 
 them whose Son Christ was? They answered 
 “David’s.” Yet both the Old and the New Testa- 
 ments agree that He is the only begotten Son of 
 God, by the following Scripture: 
 
 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, 
 until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 
 
 The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of 
 Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 
 
 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in 
 the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morn- 
 ing: thou hast the dew of thy youth. 
 
 The Lord hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a 
 priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek. 
 
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 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings 
 in the day of his wrathPSALM I10: I, 2, 3, 4, 5- 
 
 On these two commandments hang all the law and the 
 prophets. 
 
 While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked 
 them, 
 
 Saying, What think ye of Christ? whose son ts he? 
 They say unto him, The son of David. 
 
 He saith unto them, How then doth David in spirit call 
 him Lord, saying, 
 
 The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right 
 hand, till I make thine enemies thy footstool? 
 
 If David then called him Lord, how is he his son?— 
 MATTHEW 22: 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45. 
 
 If both the Spirit in David and Jesus agree that 
 Christ is the Son of God at His right hand, does it 
 not become every one of God’s chosen people to 
 agree with the Scripture and accept Him as their 
 Messiah, who was, and is, and is to come—the 
 Lord? 
 
 And Jacob vowed a vow, saying, If God will be with 
 me and wyll keep me in this way that I go, and will 
 give me bread to eat, and raiment to put on. 
 
 So that I come again to my father’s house in peace; 
 then shall the Lord be my God.—GENESIS 28: 20, 21. 
 
 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; 
 break up your fallow, ground: for it ts time to seek 
 the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon 
 you.—HOSEA I0: 12. 
 
 Job sought God, but He was hidden on the right 
 hand. 
 
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 Ok that I knew where I might find him! that I might 
 come even to his seat! ... 
 
 Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and back- 
 ward, but I cannot perceive him: 
 
 On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot 
 behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that 
 I cannot see him. 
 
 But he knoweth thé way that I take: when he hath 
 tried me, I shall come forth as gold... . 
 
 For God maketh my heart soft, and the Almighty 
 troubleth me.—JOB 23: 3, 8, 9, 10, 16. 
 
 And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these 
 words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Teman- 
 ite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against 
 thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the 
 thing that is right, as my servant Job hath— 
 
 JOB 42: 7. 
 
 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest 
 by thy right hand them which put their trust in thee 
 from those that rise up against them—PSALM 17: 7. 
 
 Jesus proclaimed Himself the Christ, the Son of 
 the Blessed, as witness the following Scripture: 
 
 Bui he held his peace, and answered nothing. Again 
 the high priest asked him, and said unto him, Art 
 thou the Christ, the Son of the Blessed? 
 
 And Jesus said, I am: and ye shall see the Son of man 
 sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in 
 the clouds of heaven.—Mark 14: 61, 62. 
 
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 DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 
 
 pee Jews divided their sacred books into » 
 
 three parts: 
 1. “The Law” (Torah) comprising the 
 five books of Moses. 
 
 2. “The Prophets” (Nebiim) comprising the 
 books of Joshua, Judges, I and IIT Samuel, I and 
 II Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and the 
 twelve minor Prophets. 
 
 3. “The Writings” (Kethubim). Under this 
 title were placed: 
 
 I. Psalms, Proverbs, Job. 
 
 II. Song of Solomon, Ruth, Lamentations, 
 Ecclesiastes, Esther. 
 
 III. Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah, I and II 
 Chronicles. 
 
 The writer finds the Old and the New Testa- 
 ment interwoven. The quotations from them are 
 taken as occasion arises in this book for their use 
 rather than any purpose of treating the Testaments 
 separately. 
 
 In comparing the Bible with Judaism, the writer 
 has made use of the book, ‘Studies in Judaism,” 
 written by the Hebrew Scholar, S. Schechter, M.A., 
 Reader in Talmudic in the University of Cam- 
 
 71 
 
"2 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 bridge. The book is published by the Jewish 
 Publication Society of America. 
 
 From that authority under the head of “The 
 Dogma of Judaism,” the following quotation is 
 made: 
 
 “As is weil known, Maimonides (1130-1205) was the 
 first Rabbanite who formulated the dogmas of the 
 Synagogue. But there are indications of earlier 
 attempts.” 
 
 “That Maimonides was quite conscious of the impor- 
 tance of this exposition can be gathered from the con- 
 cluding words addressed to the reader: ““Know these 
 (words) and repeat them many times, and think them 
 over in the proper way. God knows that thou wouldst 
 be deceiving thyself if thou thinkest thou hast under- 
 stood them by having read them once or even ten times. 
 Be not, therefore, hasty in perusing them. I have not 
 composed them without deep study and earnest re- 
 flection.” 
 
 The result of this deep study was that the fol- 
 lowing Thirteen Articles constitute the creed of 
 Judaism. They are: 
 
 1. The belief in the existence of a Creator: 2. The 
 belief in His Unity; 3. The belief in His Incorpore- 
 ality; 4. The belief in His Eternity; 5. The belief that 
 all worship and adoration are due to Him alone; 6. The 
 belief in Prophecy; 7. The belief that Moses was the 
 greatest of all Prophets, both before and after him; 
 8. The belief that the Torah was revealed to Moses on 
 Mount Sinai; 9. The belief in the Immutability of this 
 revealed Torah; 10. The belief that God knows the 
 actions of men; 11. The belief in Reward and Punish- 
 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 73 
 
 ment; 12. The belief in the coming of the Messiah; 
 13. The belief in the Resurrection of, the dead. 
 
 It will be noticed at once by the Christian reader 
 that a great similarity exists between these dogmas 
 of Judaism by Maimonides and the Christian’s 
 creed, with the following exceptions: 
 
 “The belief in His Incorporeality (the Creator). 
 
 “The belief that Moses was the greatest of all 
 Prophets, both before and after him. 
 
 “The belief in the coming of the Messiah.” 
 
 First:—We compare with the written Word 
 (Torah), the Immutability of which word is 
 assented to in Article Nine of the Dogma or Creed 
 of Judaism. 7 
 
 “The belief in the Creator’s Incorporeality, that 
 is, according to the dictionary ‘being intangible’: 
 It would be impossible to make an Image of an in- 
 tangible personality, when the Deity—Father, 
 Son and Holy Ghost (God), said, Let us make 
 man in our image, after our likeness.” He made 
 man in all his parts The Created Man. The image 
 and likeness must reveal the tangible original. 
 
 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our 
 likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of 
 the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the 
 cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping 
 thing that creepeth upon the earth—GENESIS I: 26. 
 
 Thus man was made in the Image and after the 
 Likeness of Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son 
 
74 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 of God, The Word, by whom man was made. The 
 “Word” signifies the Jew’s “Messiah,” by usage of 
 the Jews, according to Jewish literature. 
 
 Sing unto God, sing praises to his name: extol him that 
 rideth upon the heavens by his name J A H, and re- 
 joice before him.—PsatM 68: 4. 
 
 The Chaldean Paraphrasists, the most ancient 
 Jewish writers extant (according to Cruden) gener- 
 ally made use of the word ‘“MEMRA,” which sig- 
 nifies the ‘‘worpD,” in those places where Moses 
 puts the name “JEHOVAH.” 
 
 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy 
 name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truths: for 
 thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name.— 
 PSALM 138: 2. 
 
 And I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto 
 Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my 
 name JEHOVAH was I not known to them.—ExopuUs 
 Gi), 
 
 It was in the form of man that God appeared 
 to Jacob at Peniel. 
 
 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
 with him until the breaking of the day. 
 
 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he 
 touched the hollow, of his thigh; and the hollow of 
 Jacob’s thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with 
 him. 
 
 And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he 
 said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me. 
 
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 And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, 
 Jacob. 
 
 And he said, Thy name shall be calied no more Jacob, 
 but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God 
 and with men, and hast prevailed. 
 
 And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, 
 thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou 
 dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there. 
 
 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I 
 have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
 —GENESIS 32: 24-30. 
 
 The Lord spake unto Moses as a man speaketh 
 unto his friend. 
 
 And the Lord spake unto Moses face to face, as a man 
 speaketh unto his friend. And he turned again into 
 the camp; but his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a 
 young man, departed not out of the tabernacle.— 
 EXODUS 33: II. 
 
 The Lord’s hand was used in covering Moses and 
 Moses saw his back parts. 
 
 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see 
 my back parts: but my face shall not be seen— 
 EXODUS 33: 23. 
 
 The Lord wrote upon the tables of stone. “The 
 Lord stood there” with Moses. 
 
 And the Lord descended in the cloud, and stood with 
 him there, and proclaimed the name of the Lord.— 
 EXODUS 34: 5. 
 
76 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Second: Seventh Article. The belief that Moses 
 was the greatest of all prophets, both before and 
 after him. The Lord said unto Moses, “I will 
 raise up a prophet from among their breth- 
 ren.” 
 
 I will raise them up a prophet from among their 
 brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his 
 mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall 
 command him. 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not 
 hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my 
 name, I will require it of him—DEUTERONOMY 
 18:26, LO: 
 
 Then those men, when they had seen the miracle that 
 Jesus did, said, This is of a truth that prophet that 
 should come into the world.—JOHN 6: 14. 
 
 And as they departed, Jesus began to say unto the mul- 
 titudes concerning John, What went ye out into the 
 wilderness to see? A reed shaken with the 
 LONGED Die 
 
 For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my 
 messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy 
 way before thee. 
 
 Verily I say unto you. Among them that are born of 
 women there hath not risen a greater than John the 
 Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the king- 
 dom of heaven 1s greater than he.—MAtTTHEW It: 7, 
 TOWEL. 
 
 Therefore Moses was not greater than John, ac- 
 cording to the words of Jesus, nor according to 
 

 
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 the following words of Isaiah, for he names the 
 child that is born “the everlasting Father,” and in 
 Psalms as ‘“‘above his fellows.” 
 
 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and 
 the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his 
 name Shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
 Peace. 
 
 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
 be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
 kingdom, to order it, and to establish it, with judg- 
 ment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. 
 The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.— 
 ISAIAH Q: 6, 7. 
 
 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: 
 therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
 oil of gladness above thy fellows—PSALM 45: 7. 
 
 Third: Article 12. The belief in the coming of 
 the Messiah. 
 
 If this article referred to the second coming of 
 the Messiah, there would be no comment by the 
 writer, but it is evident that the belief is to the 
 Jewish conception of a Messiah which is not Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 It is our purpose to quote from the Bible which 
 shows that the Messiah has come and will come 
 again. 
 
 There is direct prophecy of the coming of Jesus 
 Christ, the Anointed, the Messiah in Hannah’s 
 prayer and song. I Samuel, Second Chapter, com- 
 
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 pare it with the fulfilment by the song of Mary, 
 the Mother of our Lord. i 
 
 And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in 
 the Lord, mine horn is exalted in the Lord: my mouth 
 is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in 
 thy salvation. 
 
 There is none holy as the Lord: for there is none beside 
 thee: neither is there any rock like our God. 
 
 Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy 
 come out of your mouth: for the Lord is a God of 
 knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.—I 
 SAMUEL 2: 1, 2, 3. 
 
 And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord. 
 
 And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour. 
 
 For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: 
 for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call 
 me blessed. 
 
 For he that is mighty hath done to me great things: and 
 holy is his name.—LUKE 1: 46, 47, 48, 49. 
 
 The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that 
 stumbled are girded with strength. 
 
 They that were full have hired out themselves for 
 bread ; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the 
 barren hath born seven; and she that haih many 
 children is waxed feeble. 
 
 The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down 
 to the grave, and bringeth up. 
 
 The Lord maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth 
 low, and lifteth up. 
 
 He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up 
 the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among 
 princes, and to make them inherii the throne of glory: 
 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 79 
 
 for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath 
 set the world upon them.—I SAMUEL 2: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 MARY’S SONG 
 
 And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation 
 to generation. 
 
 He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath 
 scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts. 
 
 He hath put down the mighty from their seats, and 
 exalted them of low degree. 
 
 He hath filled the hungry with good things; and the rich 
 he hath sent empty away.—LUKE I: 50, 51, 52, 53. 
 
 HANNAH’S SONG 
 
 He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall 
 be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man 
 prevail. 
 
 The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; 
 out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord 
 shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give 
 strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his 
 anointed.—I SAMUEL 2: 9, Io. 
 
 MARY’S SONG 
 
 He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of 
 his mercy; 
 
 As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed 
 forever —LUKE I: 54, 55. 
 
 And here follows the fulfilment of Hannah’s 
 prayer and prophetic song by the prophet Zach- 
 
80 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 arias, the father of John, the forerunner of our 
 Lord: 
 
 And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy 
 Ghost, and prophesied, saying, 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited 
 and redeemed his people, 
 
 And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the 
 house of his servant David; 
 
 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which 
 have been since the world began: 
 
 That we should be saved from our enemies, and from 
 the hand of all that hate us; 
 
 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to 
 remember his holy covenant ; 
 
 The oath which he sware to our forefather Abraham, 
 
 That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered 
 out of the hand of our enemies might serve him with- 
 out fear, 
 
 In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of 
 our life. 
 
 And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the High- 
 est: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to 
 prepare his ways; 
 
 To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the 
 remission of their sins, 
 
 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the 
 dayspring from on high hath visited us, 
 
 To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the 
 shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of 
 peace.—LUKE I: 67-79. 
 
 There was no king of the children of Israel at 
 the time Hannah gave her prayer and song, except 
 the Saviour of whom she prophesied. 
 
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 Here is the proclamation of the Messiah, the 
 only begotten Son of God, who came as Bethle- 
 hem’s babe, recorded by the Spirit: 
 
 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unio me, 
 Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.— 
 PSALMS 2: 7. 
 
 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, in 
 that he hath raised up Jesus again; as it is also writ- 
 ten in the second psalm, Thou art my Son, this day 
 have I begotten thee-——ACTS 13: 33. 
 
 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness; 
 therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
 oil of gladness above thy fellows—PSALM 45: 7. 
 
 It was Andrew who found the Messiah and told 
 his brother Simon of Him, but it was God the 
 Father who made known to Simon Peter that Jesus 
 was the Christ. 
 
 One of the two which heard John speak and followed 
 him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 
 
 He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto 
 him, We have found the Messias, whichis, being in- 
 terpreted, the Christ—JOHN I: 40, 41. 
 
 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the 
 Christ, the Son of the living God. 
 
 And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art 
 thou, Simon Bar-jona: for flesh and blood hath not 
 revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in 
 heaven.—MAtTTHEW 16: 16, 17. 
 
82 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no 
 man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither know- 
 eth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to 
 whomsoever the Son will reveal him—MAtTTHEW 
 pH he Do 
 
 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
 life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.— 
 JOHN 14: 6. 
 
 It was urged upon the disciples by Jesus to be- 
 lieve upon Him as they believed in God. 
 
 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, be- 
 lieve also in me.—JOHN I4: I. 
 
 Immediately upon asking them to do this, He 
 turns their attention to his Father’s house. 
 
 In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not 
 so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place 
 for you.—JOHN I4: 2. 
 
 The heavens that are telling the glory of God 
 are the work of God which by their association 
 with Him they have learned to believe in. 
 
 O Lord our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the 
 earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens. 
 When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, 
 the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; 
 What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the 
 son of man that thou visiiest him?—Psa_mM 8: 
 
 I, 3, 4- 
 
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 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
 ment sheweth his handywork. 
 
 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night 
 sheweth knowledge. 
 
 There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not 
 heard.— PSALM 19: I, 2, 3. 
 
 Because that which may be known of God is manifest 
 in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 
 
 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the 
 world are clearly seen, being understood by the things 
 that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead ; 
 so that they are without excuse-—ROMANS I: I9, 20. 
 
 Yes; the disciples believed in God, but had not 
 as yet sufficiently believed in Him to find the way 
 to come to him through His Christ, His Messiah, 
 His Son. The Way, the Truth and the Life from 
 henceforth they were to realise and know Christ as 
 the way to God, through whom they had been led. 
 
 Israel learned to know God, but not to come to 
 Him as a people as closely as he wanted. He chose 
 Israel for His people. They rejected Him. He 
 wants them as sons to come to Him. 
 
 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to 
 be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might 
 be the firstborn among many brethren—ROMANS 
 S220. 
 
 For it became him, for whom are all things, and by 
 whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto 
 glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect 
 through sufferings HEBREWS 2: 10. 
 
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 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art 
 thou so far from helping me, and from the words of 
 my roaring? ... 
 
 He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let 
 him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him. 
 
 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou 
 didst make me hope when I was upon my mother’s 
 breasts... . i 
 
 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of 
 joint; my heart ts like wax; it is melted in the midst 
 of my bowels. 
 
 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue 
 cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into 
 the dust of death... . 
 
 I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. 
 
 They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon 
 my vesture—PSALM 22: 1, 8, 9, 14, 15, 17, 18. 
 
 When He accomplished the shedding of His 
 blood and the giving of His body for mankind, He 
 gloried in His completed work, saying—‘It is 
 finished” and gave up His Spirit to His Father who 
 sent Him. 
 
 They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall; and 
 when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink. 
 
 And they crucified him, and paried his garments, cast- 
 ing lots; that it might be fulfilled which was spoken 
 by the prophet, They parted my garments among 
 them, and upon my vesture did they cast lois... . 
 
 He trusted in God; let him deliver him now, if he will 
 have him; for he said, I am the Son of God. ... 
 
 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 
 saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My 
 God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me? . 
 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 85 
 
 The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come 
 to save him. 
 
 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, 
 yielded up the ghost—MATTHEW 27: 34, 35, 43, 46, 
 
 49, 50. 
 
 FAITH AND HOPE OF JUDAISM 
 
 In our search for tenets of Judaism we find on 
 page 151 in the book, “Studies in Judaism,” by 
 Schechter, the following: 
 
 I have no intention here of answering the question, 
 What is Judaism? This question is not less perplexing 
 than the problem, What is God’s world? Judaism is 
 also a great Infinite, composed of as many endless 
 Units, the Jews. And these Unit-Jews have been, and 
 are still, scattered through all the world, and have 
 passed under an immensity of influences, good and bad. 
 If so, how can we give an exact definition of the In- 
 finite, called Judaism? 
 
 But if there is anything sure, it is that the highest 
 motives which worked through the history of Judaism 
 are the strong belief in God and the unshaken confidence 
 that at last this God, the God of Israel, will be the God 
 of the whole world; or, in other words, Faith and Hope 
 are the two most prominent characteristics of Juda- 
 ism. 
 
 Whatever may be considered as the two most 
 . prominent characteristics of Judaism, by Schech- 
 ter, the Bible gives the following as the two most 
 prominent commands of God to men—Love to 
 God and Love to Man. 
 
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 Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord. 
 
 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with all thine 
 heart and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 6: 4, 5. 
 
 Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any grudge against the 
 children of thy people, but thou shalt love thy neigh- 
 bour as thyself: I-am the Lord—Lerviticus 109: 18. 
 
 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the command- 
 ments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one 
 Lord: 
 
 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy 
 heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, 
 and with all thy strength: this is the first command- 
 ment. 
 
 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy 
 neighbour as thyself. There is none other command- 
 ment greater than these. 
 
 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast 
 said the truth: for there is one God, and there is none 
 other but he: 
 
 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the 
 understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the 
 strength, and to love his neighbour as himself, is more 
 than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices —-MARK 
 
 T2. 29, 30, 31, 32; 33- 
 
 And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted 
 him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal 
 life? 
 
 He said unto him, What is written in the law? how 
 readest thou? 
 
 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy 
 God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and 
 with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy 
 neighbour as thyself. 
 

 
 
 
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 And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this 
 do, and thou shalt live-—LUKE 10: 25, 26, 27, 28. 
 
 It is to be noted that the second command is said 
 by Jesus to be like the first. The loving of God 
 and the loving of our neighbour are alike. This 
 is taken up again in the New Testament. 
 
 And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have 
 somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, 
 say on. 
 
 There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the 
 one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. 
 And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave 
 them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will 
 
 love him most? 
 
 Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom 
 he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast 
 rightly judged.—LUKE 7: 40, 41, 42, 43. 
 
 Thus if we forgive much, we gain the greater 
 love, and if any in need are our neighbours, those 
 in need of forgiveness, we should forgive, even as 
 we expect to be forgiven of our Father in heaven. 
 
 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also ts 
 merciful. : 
 
 Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, 
 and ye shall not be condemned ; forgive, and ye shall 
 be forgiven LUKE 6: 36, 37. 
 
 If we say to the friend visiting us in one of the 
 delightful spring months: “Let us go along this 
 road by the river and then we shall turn to the 
 
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 right along that row of trees you see not far 
 away; then we will come to a meadow covered 
 with patches here and there of springtime blooms,” 
 thus we will, in all likelihood, have interested him 
 with a desire to see the beautiful path we know 
 of. 
 
 Of all beautiful: paths, there is none as truly 
 joyful, enriched with charming landscape, as the 
 straight and narrow way pointed out by Jesus 
 Christ. 
 
 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and 
 broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and 
 many there be which go in thereat: 
 
 Because strait is the gate, and narrow ts the way, which 
 leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it— 
 MATTHEW 7: 13, 14. 
 
 And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment 
 unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith 
 the Lord of hosts. 
 
 My covenant with him of life and peace; and I gave 
 them to him for the fear wherewith he feared me, and 
 was afraid before my name. 
 
 The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not 
 found in his lips; he walked with me in peace and 
 equity, and did turn many away from iniquity. 
 
 For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they 
 should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the mes- 
 senger of the Lord of hosts. 
 
 But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused 
 many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the 
 covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts —MAtacuHt 
 
 ae 4, '5)16) 7,8, 
 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE 89 
 
 Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in 
 the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have 
 prepared.—EXODUS 23: 20. 
 
 Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the 
 dayspring from on high hath visited us. 
 
 To give light to them thaé sit in darkness and in the 
 shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of 
 peace. 
 
 And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was 
 in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel. 
 —LUKE I: 78, 79, 80. 
 
 The people that walked in darkness have seen a great 
 light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of 
 death, upon them hath the light shined... . 
 
 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
 and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
 his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, the Prince of 
 Peace. 
 
 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall 
 be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his 
 kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judg- 
 ment and with justice from henceforth even for 
 ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform 
 this. 
 
 The Lord sent a word unto Jacob, and it hath lighted 
 upon Israel_—IsAIAH 9: 2, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou 
 shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto 
 thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, 
 he will answer thee. 
 
 And though the Lord gave you the bread of adversity, 
 and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers 
 
90 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes 
 shall see thy teachers.—IsAIAH 30: 19, 20. 
 
 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou 
 goest; and how can we know the way? 
 
 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
 life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me— 
 JOHN 14: 5, 6. 
 
 We are endeavouring to get hold of those tenets 
 in Judaism which are so binding as to keep so many 
 of its followers from accepting the Messiah, Jesus 
 Christ, as their own Messiah, thus we continue to 
 quote from “Studies in Judaism” (page 151). 
 
 “Tnsufficient and poor as they may be in proportion 
 to the importance of these two fundamental documents 
 of Judaism, these remarks may nevertheless suggest a 
 connecting link between the teachings of Jewish an- 
 tiquity and those of Maimonides and his successors. 
 
 “Y begin with the Scriptures. 
 
 “The Bible itself hardly contains a command bidding 
 us to believe. We are hardly ordered, e.g., to believe 
 in the existence of God. I say hardly, but I do not 
 altogether deny the existence of such a command.” 
 
 Perhaps the most definite command of God to 
 believe in Him that He is God, we find in the bold 
 prophecy of Isaiah, because it is Israel to whom it 
 is directed. 
 
 ISRAEL A CHOSEN WITNESS 
 
 But now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, 
 and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I 
 
DIVISIONS OF THE HEBREW BIBLE  o1 
 
 have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; 
 thou art mine... . 
 
 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
 whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe 
 me, and understand that I am he: before me there 
 was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 
 
 I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
 saviour.—ISAIAH 43: 1, 10, II. 
 
 Here He is mentioned as God and as Redeemer 
 and Saviour. It was He who paid the price for 
 Israel’s redemption, who are His by right of crea- 
 tion and purchase. “He that formed thee, O Israel, 
 for I have redeemed thee, thou art mine! Ye are 
 my witnesses, saith the Lord.” 
 
 Will His witnesses whom He hath redeemed still 
 continue to deny Him by refusing to testify for 
 Him? 
 
 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heavi- 
 ness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there 
 was none; and for comforters, but I found none— 
 PSALM 69: 20. 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
 unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
 reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and 
 justice in the earth. 
 
 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
 called, THE LorD OuR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
 
 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
 they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
 brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
 
 Egypt; 
 
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 But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which 
 led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north 
 country, and from all countries whither I had driven 
 them; and they shall dwell in their own land. 
 
 Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; 
 all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and 
 like a man whom wine hath overcome, because of the 
 Lord, and because of the words of his holiness —JERE- 
 MIAH 23: 5-9. 
 
 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and 
 a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise — 
 PSALM 51: 17. 
 
 And he took bread, and gave thanks, and brake it, and 
 gave unto them saying, This is my body which 1s 
 given for you: this do in remembrance of me. 
 
 Likewise also the cup after supper, saying, This cup 
 is the new testament in my blood, which is shed for 
 you.—LUKE 22: 19, 20. 
 
 Could any greater Saviour and Redeemer appear 
 than has appeared to Israel? 
 
 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Be- 
 hold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall 
 call his name Immanuel.—ISAtIaAH 7: 14. 
 
 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his 
 name Jesus: for he shall save his people from their 
 Sins. 
 
 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which 
 was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, 
 
 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring 
 forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, 
 
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 which being interpreted is, God with us.”’--MATTHEW 
 Deer eo. 2 As 
 
 Are the Gentiles to have faith in the Prophets’ 
 words from Scripture, and those to whom they were 
 delivered, refuse them? Shall Gentiles be saved 
 by the grace of Jesus Christ through faith and the 
 children of the promises still cling to faith and 
 hope, without the love Christ had for the world— 
 that faith and hope which we have quoted from 
 “Studies in Judaism” as being “the two most char- 
 acteristics of Judaism?”—a faith and a hope with- 
 out Jesus Christ who paid the price for their re- 
 demption? 
 
 INHERITANCE BY LAW, FAITH AND PROMISE 
 
 For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made 
 void, and the promise made of ‘none effect: 
 
 Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, 
 there is no transgression. 
 
 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to 
 the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; 
 not to that only which is of the law, but to that also 
 which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father 
 of us all—ROMANS 4: 14, 15, 16. 
 
 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace 
 wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of 
 CS: Sea ap 
 
 And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of 
 God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost 
 which is given unto us... . 
 
 For as by one man’s disobedience many were made 
 
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 sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be 
 made righteous——ROMANS 5: 2, 5, 19. 
 
 For I determined not to know anything among you, 
 save Jesus Christ and him crucified. 
 
 And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in 
 much trembling. 
 
 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing 
 words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the 
 Spirit and of Power; 
 
 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of 
 men, but in the power of God.—I CoRINTHIANS 2: 2, 
 
 3) 4, 5. 
 
 By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a 
 strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac 
 and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: 
 
 For he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose 
 builder and maker is God.—HEBREWS II: 9, 10. 
 
IV 
 HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 
 
 S to hope, the Lord must be with it to be 
 effectual, both Faith and Hope must be di- 
 rected by God, and God is Love. 
 
 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, 
 and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, 
 or a tinkling cymbal. 
 
 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and under- 
 stand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though 
 I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, 
 and have not charity, I am nothing. .. . 
 
 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but 
 the greatest of these is charity—I CORINTHIANS 
 
 re cee ahi aa We 
 
 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he 
 loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for 
 our Sins... . 
 
 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, 
 God dwelleth in him, and he in God. 
 
 And we have known and believed the love that God 
 hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in 
 love, dwelleth in God, and God in him—I JouNn 
 APuEOn ES yitOs 
 
 Then shall ye call upon me, and ye shall go and pray 
 unto me, and I will hearken unto you. 
 95 
 
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 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search 
 for me with all your heart. 
 
 And I will be found of you, saith the Lord: and I will 
 turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from 
 all tne nations, and from all the places whither I have 
 driven you, saith the Lord; and I will bring you 
 again into the place whence I caused you to be car- 
 ried away captive.-—JEREMIAH 29: 12, 13, 14. 
 
 Remember the word unto thy servant, upon which thou 
 hast caused me to hope.... 
 
 Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy 
 commandments.—PSALM I1Q: 49, 166. 
 
 God will plead with the house of Israel, with 
 His Word and Gifts, in order to bring them to 
 Faith and hope in Jesus Christ. 
 
 Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and 
 all the families of the house of Israel... . 
 
 Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, 
 and with your children’s children will I plead.— 
 JEREMIAH 2: 4, 9. 
 
 Here is Hope—God directed. 
 
 I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at 
 my right hand, I shall not be moved. 
 
 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my 
 flesh also shall rest in hope. 
 
 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt 
 thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. 
 
 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence 
 is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleas- 
 ures for evermore.—PSALM 16: 8, 9, 10, II. 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 97 
 
 Hear this, all ye people; give ear, all ye inhabitants of 
 the world... . 
 
 I will incline mine ear to a he das I will open my dark 
 saying upon the harp. . 
 
 None of them can by fain means redeem Pe brother, 
 nor give to God a ransom for him... . 
 
 But God will redeem my soul from the power of the 
 grave: for he shail receive mée.—PSALM 49:1, 4, 
 
 7, 15. 
 
 For I know, that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall 
 stand at the latter day upon the earth: 
 
 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, 
 yet in my flesh shall I see God: 
 
 Whom I shali see for myself, and mine eyes shall be- 
 hold, and not another, though my reins be consumed 
 within me.—JOB 19: 25, 26, 27. 
 
 My soul fainteth for thy salvation: but I hope in thy 
 OTS As 
 
 Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in 
 AEVGTUONG hase 
 
 Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live: 
 and let me not be ashamed of my hope.—PsaALM 
 PIG. ole t tA. E10. 
 
 We are saved, still if hope fails to be in God, 
 is it leading to Salvation? 
 
 For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not 
 hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope 
 for? 
 
 But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with 
 patience wait for it. 
 
 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we 
 
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 know not what we should pray for as we ought: but 
 the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with 
 groanings which cannot be uttered—RoMANS 8: 24, 
 PAMELOR 
 
 Let Israel hope in the Lord from henceforth and for 
 ever.—PSALM I3I: 3. 
 
 Jesus told His disciples that if He did not go 
 away, the Comforter would not come unto them. 
 
 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for 
 you that I go away: for if I do not go away, the 
 Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, 
 I will send Him unto you-—JOHN 16: 7. 
 
 Jesus ascended on high that He might give gifts 
 unto men. 
 
 But unto every one of us is given grace according to 
 the measure of the gift of Christ. 
 
 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he 
 led captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.— 
 EPHESIANS 4: 7, 8. 
 
 Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity 
 captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, 
 for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell 
 among them.—PsaM 68: 18. 
 
 WE MAY NOT ADD TO GOD’S WORDS 
 
 What greater gifts could He give men than to 
 give His only begotten Son and The Comforter, 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 99 
 
 The Holy Ghost, to lead us into all truth and in- 
 tercede for us—notice that the Son’s name is asked. 
 Surely there is something marvellous in God’s 
 words. 
 
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
 gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
 not perish, but have everlasting life—JOHN 3: 16. 
 
 The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: 
 the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, 
 
 Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not 
 the understanding of a@ man. 
 
 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of 
 the holv. 
 
 Who hath ascended up into heaven, or descended? who 
 hath gathered the wind in his fists? who hath bound 
 the waters in a garment? who hath established all 
 the ends of the earth? what is his name, and what is 
 his son’s name, tf thou canst tell? 
 
 Every word of God is pure: he is a shield unto them 
 that put their trust in him. 
 
 Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and 
 thou be found a liar —PROVERBS 30: 1-6. 
 
 To His Son Jesus there was given the purpose 
 to send the Comforter to all who believe in the 
 Lord Jesus Christ. It is He who gave us our 
 Fathers and our Mothers—who out of the earth we 
 tread on, has brought forth food for our temporal 
 life, who gives us the sun by day, and the moon 
 and the stars by night for our guidance. 
 
 Is it not reasonable that He gave his only be- 
 gotten Son to us for our spiritual welfare and to 
 
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 make intercession for us, that we might dwell with 
 Him forever, in the light of his presence? 
 
 But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his 
 voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all 
 ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, 
 and hearken to my words... . 
 
 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the 
 patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and 
 his sepulchre is with us unto this day. 
 
 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had 
 sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his 
 loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ 
 to sit on his throne. 
 
 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, 
 that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did 
 see corruption 
 
 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are wit- 
 nesseS.—ACTS 2: 14, 29, 30, 31, 32. 
 
 No man can come to me, except the Father which hath 
 sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last 
 day. 
 
 It 1s written in the prophets, And they shall be all 
 taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard, 
 and hath learned of the Father, cometh unto me. 
 
 Not that any man hath seen the Father, save he which 
 is of God, he hath seen the Father. 
 
 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me 
 hath everlasting life. 
 
 I am that bread of life. 
 
 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are 
 dead. 
 
 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, 
 that a man may eat thereof, and not die. 
 
 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST IOI 
 
 if any man eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: 
 and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I 
 will give for the life of the world——JOHN 6: 44-51. 
 
 Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born 
 of God: and every one that loveth him that begat 
 loveth him also that is begotten of him. 
 
 By this we know that we love the children of God, when 
 we love God, and keep his commandments. 
 
 For this is the love of God, that we keep his command- 
 ments: and his commandments are not grievous. 
 For whatsoever is born of God overcometh the world: 
 and this is the victory that overcometh the world, 
 
 even our faith— I JOHN 5: I, 2, 3, 4. 
 
 It was by believing in the Lord that Abraham re- 
 ceived credit for righteousness. 
 
 And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of 
 God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel._— 
 MARK I: IS. 
 
 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
 for righteousness ——GENESIS I5: 6. 
 
 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father 
 in me; or else believe me for the very work’s sake.— 
 JOHN 14: II. 
 
 We now quote again from Schechter’s “Studies 
 in Judaism”: 
 
 “For our purpose,” he says, “it is of no great conse- 
 quence to examine what future the prophets had in 
 view, whether an immediate future or one more remote, 
 
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 at the end of days. At any rate, they inculcated hope 
 and confidence that God would bring to pass a better 
 time. I think that even the most advanced Bible critic 
 —provided he is not guided by some Aryan reasons— 
 must perceive in such passages as “The Lord shall reign 
 for ever and ever,’ ‘The Lord shall rejoice in his works,’ 
 and many others, a_hope for more than the establish- 
 ment of the ‘national Deity among his votaries in Pales- 
 tine.’ ” 
 
 PROPHECIES 
 
 From such authority we welcome the above state- 
 ment as favourable to our purpose for bringing to 
 mind the expression “Jesus Christ and Him Cruci- 
 fied” as set forth in the Bible. 
 
 If we fail to examine the future the prophets 
 had in view, we would fail the commands of God 
 and a great part of that which has made the Bible 
 sacred to mankind, “believed on in the world,” and 
 the book most majestic in language and spirit that 
 the world has known, or will be likely ever to have 
 in its possession. 
 
 The great importance of the prophets of the 
 Old and the New Testaments, both for the time in 
 which they prophesied, and the future they prophe- 
 sied of, makes it necessary that their present or 
 future time of realisation be indicated as far as 
 may be. It should be done in order to justify that 
 which is correctly stated: “They inculcated hope 
 and confidence that God would bring to pass a 
 better time.” 
 
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 Moses said: 
 
 The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet 
 from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; 
 unto him ye shall hearken; 
 
 According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy 
 God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let 
 me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, 
 neither let me see this great fire any more, that 
 I die not. 
 
 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken 
 that which they have spoken. 
 
 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their breth- 
 ren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his 
 mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall 
 command him. 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that whosever will not hearken 
 unto my words, which he shall speak in my name, I 
 will require it of him. 
 
 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word 
 in my name, which I have not commanded him to 
 speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, 
 even that prophet shall die. 
 
 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the 
 word which the Lord hath not spoken? 
 
 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if 
 the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the 
 thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the 
 prophet has spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not 
 be afraid of hinm.—DEUTERONOMY 18: 15-22. 
 
 If the Scriptures are diligently searched as com- 
 manded by Christ and by Moses and the Prophets, 
 as to prophecies of the present when made, or of 
 the future, we believe many of our Jewish people 
 
104 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 would find their Messiah and Eternal Life through 
 the grace that is in Jesus Christ who said: 
 
 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 
 and I will give you rest. 
 
 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am 
 meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto 
 your souls. 
 
 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.— 
 MATTHEW IT: 28, 29, 30. 
 
 JACOB CHANGED TO ISRAEL 
 
 Having passed from the above Scripture and 
 comment, the writer finds himself in deep accord 
 with the scholar “Schechter” in his further state- 
 ment, namely—‘“‘must perceive in such passages 
 as,’—The Lord shall reign for-ever and ever— 
 The Lord shall rejoice in His works,—and a hope 
 for more than the establishment of the ‘National 
 Deity among his votaries in Palestine.” 
 
 The Deity of the Hebrew as understood by the 
 race, for the most part is a Deity without Jesus 
 Christ. But contrary to the understanding that 
 there is but one nation which may claim the 
 promise made to “Israel,” we must show God’s 
 declaration to the contrary. 
 
 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
 eternal life: and they are they which testify of me— 
 
 JOHN 5: 39. 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 105 
 
 By this searching we find that God changed the 
 name of Jacob to that of Israel, saying to Jacob: 
 “Thy name shall not any more be called Jacob but 
 Israel shall be thy name. A nation and a company 
 of nations shall be of thee and kings shall come 
 out of thy loins.” And the land which was given to 
 Abraham and Isaac is now given to Israel, of whom 
 was to be a company of nations. Let us now learn 
 from Scripture that it was as a man, even the word 
 that “was God,” the Christ, who wrestled with 
 Jacob at Beth-el when he fled from Esau. 
 
 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man 
 with him until the breaking of the day... . 
 
 And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I 
 have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved. 
 —GENESIS 32: 24, 30. 
 
 And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and 
 dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, that 
 appeared unto thee when thou fledest from the face 
 of Esau thy brother—GENESIS 35: I. 
 
 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out 
 of Padanaram, and blessed him. 
 
 And God said unto him, Thy name is Jacob: thy name 
 shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall 
 be thy name: and he called his name Israel. 
 
 And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruit- 
 ful and multiply; a nation and a company of na- 
 tions shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy 
 loins: 
 
 And the land which I gave Abraham and Isaac, to thee 
 
106 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 I will give it, and to thy seed after thee will I give 
 the land. 
 
 And God went up from him in the place where he talked 
 with him. 
 
 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked 
 with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a 
 drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. 
 
 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake 
 with him, Beth-el—GENESIS 35: 9-15. 
 
 And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, 
 saying, 
 
 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
 shalt be a father of many nations. 
 
 Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but 
 thy name shall be Abraham; for a father of many 
 nations have I made thee. 
 
 And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make 
 nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee. 
 
 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee 
 and thy seed after thee in their generations for an 
 everlasting covenant, to be a God unio thee, and to 
 thy seed after thee. 
 
 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, 
 the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of 
 Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be 
 their God.—GENESIS 17: 3-8. 
 
 THE PROMISE TO CHRIST 
 
 Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. 
 He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of 
 one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 
 
 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed 
 before of God in Christ, the law, which was four 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 107 
 
 hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, 
 that it should make the promise of none effect. 
 
 For if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of 
 promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise.— 
 GALATIANS 3: 16, 17, 18. 
 
 In the seed of Abraham all the nations of the 
 earth were to be blessed. 
 
 And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham oui of 
 heaven the second time, 
 
 And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the Lord, for 
 because thou hast done this thing, and hast not with- 
 held thy son, thine only son: 
 
 That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I 
 will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and 
 as the sand which is upon the seashore; and thy seed 
 shall possess the gate of his enemies; 
 
 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be 
 blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.— 
 GENESIS 22: 15-18. 
 
 In the blessing of Jacob (whose name God made 
 to be Israel) ‘“The Shepherd, the Stone of Israel” 
 is mentioned as coming from God, even by the God 
 of Jacob. 
 
 My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of things 
 which I have made touching the king: my tongue ts 
 the pen of a ready writer. 
 
 Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is 
 poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed 
 thee for ever. 
 
 Gird thy sword upon thy thigh, O most mighty, with 
 thy glory and thy majesty... . 
 
108 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: 
 therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the 
 oil of gladness above thy fellows... . 
 
 Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine 
 ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s 
 house; 
 
 So shall the king greatly desire thy beauty: for he is thy 
 Lord; and worship thou him... . 
 
 The king’s daughter is all glorious within: her clothing 
 is of wrought gold——PSALM 45: I, 2, 3, 7, 10, II, 13. 
 
 And after these things I heard a great voice of much 
 people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and 
 glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our 
 Gort. 
 
 Let us be glad and rejoice, and give honour to him: for 
 the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife 
 hath made herself ready. 
 
 And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in 
 fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the 
 righteousness of saints. 
 
 And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which 
 are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. 
 And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of 
 God. 
 
 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto 
 me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and 
 of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: 
 worship God: for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit 
 of prophecy—REVELATION IQ: I, 7, 8, 9, IO. 
 
 Israel needs this Shepherd, for like all mankind, 
 they have failed to obey all of God’s commands. 
 
 And hast brought forth thy people Israel out of the 
 land of Egypt with signs, and with wonders, and 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 109 
 
 with a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm, 
 and with great terror: 
 
 And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear 
 to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk 
 and honey; 
 
 And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed 
 not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have 
 done nothing of all that thou commandest them to 
 do: therefore thou hast caused ali this evil to come 
 upon them.—JEREMIAH 32: 21, 22, 23. 
 
 I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God for- 
 bid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abra- 
 ham, of the tribe of Benjamin. .. . 
 
 Even so than at this present time also there is a rem- 
 nant according to the election of grace. 
 
 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise 
 grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then 
 is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more 
 work. 
 
 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
 seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and 
 the rest were blinded... . 
 
 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
 God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation 
 is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to 
 jealousy. . 
 
 For if the estes be holy, the lump is also holy: and 
 if the root be holy, so are the branches. 
 
 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, 
 being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, 
 and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the 
 olive tree—ROMANS II: I, 5, 6, 7, 11, 16, 17. 
 
 Thus we find by the Bible that Israel is now 
 with many nations of people, in need of more than 
 
IIO THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 the establishment of a “Jewish” National Deity in 
 the land of Israel. 
 
 ZION’S KING 
 
 When we mention or think of the word Zion, 
 there springs into mind much of the beauty of form 
 and language that Holy Scripture is made up of: 
 
 Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. 
 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
 Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
 inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for 
 thy possession. 
 
 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron; thou shalt 
 dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel. 
 
 Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye 
 judges of the earth. 
 
 Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with irembling. 
 
 Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the 
 way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed 
 are all they that put their trust in him—PsaLm 
 2: 6-12. 
 
 And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all 
 nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught 
 up unto God, and to his throne.—REVELATION 12: 5. * 
 
 But that which ye have already hold fast till I 
 COME ahs 
 
 And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto 
 the end, to him will I give power over the nations: 
 
 And he shall rule them with a rod of iron; as the vessels 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST III 
 
 of a potter shall they be broken to shivers: even as 
 I received of my Father.—REVELATION 2: 25, 26, 27. 
 
 Who is the King of Glory? 
 
 And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor 
 asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? 
 And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest. 
 
 And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS 
 IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.—MATTHEW 27: II, 
 
 37: 
 
 Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom 
 I have chosen: 
 
 Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee 
 from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O 
 Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurum, whom I have 
 chosen. 
 
 For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and 
 floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit 
 upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: 
 
 And they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows 
 by the water courses. 
 
 One shall say, I am the Lord’s; and another shall call 
 himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall sub- 
 scribe with his hand unto the Lord, and surname 
 himself by the name of Israel. 
 
 Thus saith the Lord the King of Israel, and his re- 
 deemer the Lord of hosts; I am the first, and I am 
 the last; and beside me there is no God. 
 
 And who, as I, shall call, and shali declare it, and set 
 it in order for me, since I appointed the ancient 
 people? and the things that are coming, and shall 
 come, let them shew unto them. 
 
 Fear ye not, neither be afraid; have not I told thee 
 from that time, and have declared it? ye are even 
 
II2 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 my witnesses. Is there a God beside me, yea, there ts 
 no God; I know not any.—ISAtaH 44: 1-8. 
 
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lijt up, ye 
 everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come 
 in. 
 
 Who is this King of Glory? The Lord strong and 
 mighty, the Lord mighty in battle... . 
 
 Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye 
 everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come 
 in. 
 
 Who is this King of glory? the Lord of hosts, he is the 
 King of glory.—PSALM 24: 7, 8, 9, 10. 
 
 The Lord sitteth upon the flood; yea, the Lord sitteth 
 King for ever. 
 
 The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord 
 will bless his people with peace—PSALM 29: 10, II. 
 
 O clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with 
 the voice of triumph. 
 
 For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great King 
 over all the earth. 
 
 He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency 
 of Jacob whom he loved. ... 
 
 The princes of the people are gathered together, even 
 the people of the God of Abraham: for the shields of 
 the earth belong unto God; he 1s greatly exalted — 
 PSALM 47, £02) 4, 0. 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
 unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
 reign and prosper, and shall execute judgment and 
 justice in the earth. 
 
 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
 THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.—JEREMIAH 23: 5, 6. 
 
HOPE MUST BE IN CHRIST 113 
 
 We learn from Scripture who the King is. Can 
 we tell when He is to come? 
 
 But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, 
 even Christ; and all ye are brethren. 
 
 And call no man your father upon the earth: for one ts 
 your Father, which is in heaven. 
 
 Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, 
 even Christ. 
 
 But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. 
 —MATTHEW 23: 8, 9, 10, II. 
 
 Nathanael answered and saith unto him, Rabbi, thou 
 art the Son of God; thou art the King of Israel. 
 
 Jesus answered and said unto him, Because I said unto 
 thee, I saw thee under the fig tree, believest thou? 
 thou shalt see greater things than these. 
 
 And he saith unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto you, 
 Hereafter ye shall see heaven open, and the angels of 
 God ascending and descending upon the Son of man. 
 —JOHN I: 49, 50, 51. 
 
 When they therefore were come together, they asked of 
 him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again 
 the kingdom to Israel? 
 
 And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the 
 times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his 
 own power. 
 
 But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost 
 is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me 
 both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea, and in Samaria, 
 and unto the uttermost part of the earth. 
 
 And when he had spoken these things, while they be- 
 held, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out 
 of their sight—Acts 1: 6-9. 
 
II4 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And there came unto me one of the seven angels which 
 had the seven vials full of the last seven plagues, and 
 talked with me, saying, Come hither, I will shew 
 thee the bride, the Lamb’s wife. 
 
 And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high 
 mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy 
 Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God.— 
 REVELATION 21: 9, 10. 
 
 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with 
 me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 
 
 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the 
 first and the last.—REVELATION 22: 12, 13. 
 
V 
 LAW AND GRACE 
 
 T is the writer’s purpose to adhere to the title 
 to this book for the subject matter quoted as 
 Biblical authority, that is, to the Bible known 
 
 as it is to the author and that portion (the Old 
 Testament) known as such or as the Torah (Law) 
 of the Hebrews. 
 
 To the Jews’ Sacred Writings which they claim 
 to be the Oral or Spoken Law given by God to 
 Moses, we make reference. We quote only fronr 
 the author Schechter, as being sufficient for the 
 comment we make thereon: 
 
 Bui Christ being come an high priest of good things 
 to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, 
 not made with hands, that is to say, not of this 
 building ; 
 
 Neither by the blood of goats and calves, but by his 
 own blood he entered in once into the holy place, 
 having obtained eternal redemption for us. 
 
 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes 
 of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the 
 purifying of the flesh: 
 
 How, much more shall the blood of Christ, who through 
 tne eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to 
 God, purge your conscience from dead works to 
 serve the living God?—-HEBREWS 9: II, 12, 13, I4. 
 
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116 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, 
 and not the very image of the things, can never with 
 those sacrifices which they offered year by year con- 
 tinually make the comers thereunto perfect. 
 
 For then would they not have ceased to be offered? 
 because that the worshippers once purged should have 
 had no more conscience of sins, 
 
 But in those sacrifices there is a remembrance again 
 made of sins every year. 
 
 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
 goats should take away sins. 
 
 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 
 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body 
 hast thou prepared me.—HEBREWS I0: I, 2, 3, 4, 5- 
 
 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto 
 me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings 
 of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not 
 in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 
 —ISAIAH I: II. 
 
 The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called 
 the earth, from the rising of the sun unto the going 
 down thereof. 
 
 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath shined. 
 
 Our God shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire 
 shall devour before him, and it shall be very tem- 
 pestuous round about him. 
 
 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the 
 earth, that he may judge his people. 
 
 Gather my saints together unio me; those that have 
 made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 
 
 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for 
 God is judge himself. Selah. 
 
 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I 
 will testify against thee: I am God even thy God. 
 
LAW AND GRACE 117 
 
 I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt 
 offerings, to have been continually before me. 
 
 I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out 
 of thy folds. 
 
 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle 
 upon a thousand hills —PsAM 50: I-Io. 
 
 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: 
 let the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, 
 and all things that come forth of it.... 
 
 And all the host of heaven, shall be dissolved, and the 
 heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all 
 their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from 
 the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree. 
 
 For it is the day of the Lord’s vengeance, and the 
 year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.— 
 ISAIAH 34: I, 4, 8. 
 
 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doc- 
 trine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in 
 the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and 
 the Son—IlI JouN 9. 
 
 JEWISH SYNAGOGUE DOCTRINE 
 
 The following from the introduction in Schech- 
 ter’s “Studies in Judaism” gives a summary of 
 Jewish Synagogue Doctrine as Schechter intro- 
 duces them to the readers of his book. 
 
 “Tt is not the mere revealed Bible that is of first im- 
 portance to the Jew, but the Bible as it repeats itself in 
 history, in other words as it is interpreted by Tradition. 
 The Talmud, that wonderful mine of religious ideas 
 from which it would be just as easy to draw up a man- 
 
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 ual for the most orthodox as to extract a vade mecum 
 for the most sceptical, lends some countenance to this 
 view by certain controversial passages—not to be taken 
 seriously—in which ‘the words of the scribes’ are placed 
 almost above the words of the Torah. Since then the 
 interpretation of Scripture or the Secondary Meaning 
 is mainly a product of changing historical influences, it 
 follows that the centre of authority is actually removed 
 from the Bible and placed in some living body, which, 
 by reason of its being in touch with the ideal aspirations 
 and the religious needs of the age, is best able to de- 
 termine the nature of the Secondary Meaning. 
 
 “The Synagogue with its long, continuous cry after 
 God for more than twenty-three centuries, with its un- 
 remittent activity, in teaching and developing the word 
 of God, with its uninterrupted succession of prophets, 
 Psalmists, Scribes, Assideans, Rabbis, Patriarchs, In- 
 terpreters, Elucidators, Eminences, and Teachers, with 
 its glorious record of Saints, martyrs, sages, philos- 
 ophers, scholars, and mystics; this Synagogue, the only 
 true witness to the past, and forming in all ages the 
 sublimest expression of Israel’s religious life, must also 
 retain its authority as the sole true guide for the pres- 
 ent and the future. And being in communion with this 
 Synagogue, we may also look hopefully for a safe and 
 rational solution of our present theological troubles. 
 
 “We may, therefore, safely trust that the Synagogue 
 will again assert its divine right in passing judgment 
 upon the Bible when it feels called upon to exercise that 
 holy office. It is ‘God who has chosen the Torah, and 
 Moses His servant, and Israel His people.’ But indeed 
 God’s choice invariably coincides with the wishes of 
 Israel; He ‘performeth all things’ upon which the 
 councils of Israel, meeting under the promise of the 
 Divine presence and communion, have previously agreed. 
 As the Talmud somewhere expresses itself with regard 
 
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 to the Book of Esther, ‘They have confirmed above 
 what Israel has accepted below.’ 
 
 “Another consequence of this conception of Tradition 
 is that it is neither Scripture nor primitive Judaism, 
 but general custom which forms the real rule of practice. 
 Holy Writ as well as history, Zunz tells us, teaches that 
 the law of Moses was never fully and absolutely put in 
 practice. Liberty was always given to the great teach- 
 ers of every generation to make modifications and in- 
 novations in harmony with the spirit of existing insti- 
 tutions. Hence a return to Mosaism would be illegal, 
 pernicious, and indeed impossible. The norm as well 
 as the sanction of Judaism is the practice actually in 
 vogue. Its consecration is the consecration of general 
 use,—or, in other words, of Catholic Israel.” 
 
 Should not the revealed Bible that repeats itself 
 in history be of first importance to the Jew or to 
 any people who hold it sacred as being the written 
 word of God? 
 
 Thy testimonies also are my delight and my coun- 
 sellors. 
 
 My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me ac- 
 cording to thy word... . 
 
 Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes; and I shall 
 keep it unto the end.—PSALM I10: 24, 25, 33. 
 
 Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, 
 and he shall presently give me more than twelve 
 legions of angels? 
 
 But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus 
 it must be?—MATTHEW 26: 53, 54. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the 
 Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto 
 
120 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 the meck; he hath sent me to bind up the broken- 
 hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the 
 opening of the prison to them that are bound.— 
 ISAIAH 61: I. 
 
 And he began to say unto them, This day is the scrip- 
 ture fulfilled in your ears. 
 
 And all bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious 
 words which proceeded out of his mouth. And they 
 said, Is not this Joseph’s son?—-LUKE 4: 21, 22. 
 
 The Lord hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not 
 turn from it; Of the fruit of thy body will I set upon 
 thy throne-—PSALM 132: II. 
 
 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
 they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
 brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
 Egypt ; 
 
 But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led 
 the seed of the house of Israel out of the north coun- 
 try, and from all countries whither I had driven them; 
 and they shall dwell in their own land—JEREMIAH 
 re ons Ra 
 
 But thou, Beth-lehem Ephratah, though thou be little 
 among the thousands of Judah, yet out of thee shall 
 he come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; 
 whose goings forth have been from of old, from ever- 
 lasting —MIcAH 5: 2. 
 
 Others said, This is the Christ. But some said, Shall 
 Christ come out of Galilee? 
 
 Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the 
 seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, 
 where David was?—JOHN 7: 4I, 42. 
 
LAW AND GRACE 121 
 
 Christ never waited until history repeated the 
 Bible before He considered it of first importance. 
 
 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not 
 live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
 ceedeth out of the mouth of God... . 
 
 Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not 
 tempt the Lord thy God. ... 
 
 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan; for 
 it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, 
 and him only shalt thou serve-—MATTHEW 4: 4, 7, 
 IO. 
 
 Besides these references made by the Saviour, 
 there are very many more made by the Prophets 
 and Apostles in Holy Scripture, that they made to 
 be of first importance without waiting for the his- 
 tory to follow it. All the Prophets must of neces- 
 sity have done so. And we have failed to find an 
 instance in Scripture where tradition is resorted 
 to in order to verify the Written Word, as being the 
 Word of God. 
 
 Considering that God by His Written Word is 
 witness with His only Begotten Son and by the 
 Holy Ghost that the Holy Scripture is to stand, 
 should we not believe it? 
 
 And the Lord said unto me, They have well spoken that 
 which they have spoken. 
 
 I will raise them up a Prophet from among their 
 brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in 
 his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I 
 shall command him, 
 
122 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever will not 
 hearken unto my words which he shall speak in my 
 name, I will require it of hkim-—DEUTERONOMY 
 18*\17, 18, 10: 
 
 Shall we not then deny the assertion given in the 
 quotation from “Studies in Judaism” to the effect 
 that “the centre of authority is removed from the 
 Bible and placed in some living authority”? It is 
 the Bible that reveals and is a living witness of the 
 truth Christ fulfils. 
 
 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
 prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
 
 law, til all be fulfilled —MatTTHEW 5: 17, 18. 
 
 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
 elders? for they wash not thei hands when they 
 eat bread. 
 
 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
 trangress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
 tion?—MATTHEW IS: 2, 3. 
 
 And Moses came and told the people all the words of 
 the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people 
 answered with one voice, and said, All the words 
 which the Lord hath said will we do. 
 
 And Moses wrote all the words of the Lord, and rose up 
 early in the morning, and builded an altar under the 
 hull, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes 
 OP MSTAEL AN ial s 
 
 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the 
 audience of the people: and they said, All that the 
 Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. 
 
LAW AND GRACE 123 
 
 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the 
 people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, 
 which the Lord hath made with you concerning all 
 these words.—EXODUS 24: 3, 4, 7, 8. 
 
 If thus we learn that Moses wrote all the words 
 of the Lord, was it not that there should be left 
 as first authority an immovable Written Word of 
 the Lord that could never be changed by the tradi- 
 tions of men? 
 
 The Covenant was made with the children of 
 Israel and written. Should Israel ever give their 
 consent to the removal of the written Covenant of 
 God to the “Needs of the Age,” as needs are con- 
 ceived by fallible man? 
 
 But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not 
 live by bread alone, but by every word that pro- 
 ceedeth out of the mouth of God—MATTHEW 4: 4. 
 
 The Lord commanded the prophet Jeremiah to 
 write in a Book all the words He had spoken unto 
 him, evidently intending that Israel should read the 
 words when they returned to the land the Lord 
 had given to their fathers. 
 
 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 
 
 Thus speaketh the Lord God of Israel, saying, Write 
 thee all the words that I have spoken unto thee in a 
 book.—JEREMIAH 30:1, 2. 
 
 There is no reason why the written word from 
 God to Jeremiah should be removed from the Bible. 
 
124 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Even when Jehoiakim, the King, had burned Jere- 
 miah’s and Baruch’s writings of the Lord’s words, 
 the Lord commanded Jeremiah to write them over 
 again, which he did by Baruch. 
 
 It is evident that the written word of God was 
 to abide, and under God’s care will abide. 
 
 And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by 
 night, and said unio him, Take heed that thou speak 
 not to Jacob either good or bad. 
 
 Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched 
 his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren 
 pitched in the mount of Gilead. 
 
 And Laban said to Jacob, What hast thou done, that 
 thou hast stolen away unawares to me, and carried 
 away my daughters, as captives taken with the 
 sword? 
 
 Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away 
 from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have 
 sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with 
 tabret, and with harp? 
 
 And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daugh- 
 ters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing. 
 
 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the 
 God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, 
 Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either 
 good or bad. 
 
 And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because 
 thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet 
 wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?—GENESIS 31: 
 24-30. 
 
 So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll: and he took 
 it out of Elishama the scribe’s chamber. And Jehudi 
 
LAW AND GRACE 125 
 
 vead it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of 
 all the princes which stood beside the king. 
 
 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth 
 month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning 
 before him. 
 
 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three 
 or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast 
 it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the 
 roll was consumed in the fire that was on the 
 Ch ae 
 
 Then the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, after that 
 the king had burned the roll, and the words which 
 Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying, 
 
 Take thee again another roll, and write in it all the 
 former words that were in the first roll, which 
 Jehoiakim the king of Judah hath burned.—JEre- 
 MiAd, 36512 1,/225-225.27 (28. 
 
 In Nehemiah, the eighth chapter, it is the Book 
 of the “Law of Moses which the Lord had com- 
 manded to Israel” that is mentioned. No oral law 
 is referred to: 
 
 And all the people gathered themselves together as one 
 man into the street that was before the water gate; 
 and they spake unto Ezra the scribe to bring the book 
 of the law of Moses, which the Lord had commanded 
 to Israel. 
 
 And he read therein before the street that was before 
 the water gate from the morning until midday, be- 
 fore the men and the women, and those that could 
 understand; and the ears of all the people were 
 attentive unto the book of the law—NEHEMIAH 
 he ae & 
 
126 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of 
 writing the words of this law in a book, until they 
 were finished. 
 
 That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the 
 ark of the covenant of the Lord, saying, 
 
 Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the 
 ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, that it 
 may be there for a witness against thee. 
 
 For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, 
 while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been 
 rebellious against the Lord; and how much more 
 after my death? 
 
 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your 
 officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, 
 and call heaven and earth to record against them. 
 
 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt 
 yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have 
 commanded you; and evil will befall you in the 
 latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight of 
 the Lord, to provoke him to anger through the work 
 of your hands. 
 
 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of 
 Israel the words of this song, until they were ended. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 31: 24-30. 
 
 Words spoken by our Saviour were ordained by 
 Christ to become written words of the New Testa- 
 ment. The wonderful work of bringing the written 
 word about was given to the Holy Spirit,—man 
 should not remove their authority. 
 
 Here is the authority: 
 
 These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present 
 with you. 
 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the 
 
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 Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all 
 things, and bring all things to your remembrance, 
 whatsoever, I have said unto you.u—JOHN 14: 25, 26. 
 
 In the quotation from “Studies in Judaism” we 
 note this portion: 
 
 “This living body, however, is not represented by any 
 section of the Nation, or any corporate Priesthood, or 
 Rabbihood, but by the collective conscience of Catholic 
 Israel, as embodied in the universal Synagogue. The 
 Synagogue ‘with its long, continuous cry after God for 
 more than twenty-three centuries,’ with its unremittent 
 activity in teaching and developing the word of God, 
 with its uninterrupted succession of prophets, Psalmists, 
 Scribes, Assideans, Rabbis, Patriarchs, Interpreters, 
 Elucidators, Eminences, and Teachers, with its glorious 
 record of Saints, martyrs, sages, philosophers, scholars, 
 and mystics; this Synagogue, the only true witness to 
 the past, and forming in all ages the sublimest expres- 
 sion of Israel’s religious life, must also retain its author- 
 ity as the sole true guide for the present and the future. 
 And being in communion with this Synagogue, we may 
 also look hopefully for a safe and rational solution of 
 our present theological troubles.” 
 
 Such plain statements from a Jewish scholar in 
 the name of the Synagogue to which he adheres, 
 should strike sympathetic chords in the breast of 
 all who have experienced a “continuous cry after 
 God.” Acry that has likewise been an experience 
 of every believer in Jesus Christ until He was 
 found of them by the grace of Him who gave Him- 
 self for them. 
 
128 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 FROM A DISTINGUISHED RABBI 
 
 This confession by the author of “Studies in 
 Judaism” brings to mind a somewhat similar state- 
 ment made by the distinguished lecturer known so 
 generally, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York, in 
 an address given in the Second Presbyterian Church 
 of Amsterdam, New York, January 10, 1925. The 
 similarity referred to is to the “Searching towards 
 God.” We quote from the “Amsterdam Evening 
 Record” of January I0, 1925: 
 
 “The beginning of the Christian Era is a milestone 
 about midway between the beginning of Israel and the 
 present. It is difficult to define a faith which began 
 four thousand years ago and still comprises a group of 
 vital believers, for within a period of four thousand 
 years religious views and aspirations change. We have 
 our Modernists and our Fundamentalists, and our 
 problem parallels your own. 
 
 “Speaking of the Bible, the Rabbi urged that the 
 tendency to regard it as a book should be overcome. 
 It is a literature—a library comprised between two 
 covers. The oldest antedates by one thousand years 
 the latest. Everything within this literature of the 
 Bible is the story of a people who for two thousand 
 years from Abraham to the Maccabees were always 
 searching towards God. 
 
 “This literature is animated by a master-purpose, the 
 faith of Israel as a growing vital thing. This faith, con- 
 tinued Rabbi Wise, is not always the same. My own 
 faith is in some respects like that of Abraham, in others 
 unlike,—I am moving with my people. I honour my 
 Father’s memory, not by standing where he stood but 
 
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 by pilgriming on as he would have done had he lived, 
 even as he did while he lived. The Jew has builded and 
 will build upon his faith as a living, growing, pulsing 
 thing.” 
 
 JEWISH SEARCHING TOWARD GOD 
 
 The main purpose of the writer in quoting from 
 the lecture of Rabbi Wise, is to draw attention 
 to a portion of his address, that portion which 
 coupled with the equally remarkable quotation 
 from the scholar Schechter, brings according to ex- 
 cellent Jewish authority, the Jews into some ac- 
 cord with Christianity, namely: 
 
 From Schechter: 
 
 “The Synagogue with its long continued cry after God 
 for more than twenty-three centuries.” 
 
 From Rabbi Wise: 
 
 “This literature of the Bible is the story of a people 
 who for two thousand years from Abraham to the 
 Maccabees were always inflexibly searching towards 
 God.” 
 
 There remains the great difference between the 
 Jewish search and the hunger and thirst of the 
 Christian, in that the latter believe they have found 
 God in Jesus Christ: 
 
 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right- 
 eousness: for they shall be filled—MATTHEW 5: 6. 
 
130 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Yet Christians do not wish the beginning of 
 their faith to remain hidden, so the writer feels 
 constrained to refer to it. Instead of the “Chris- 
 tian Era” beginning as “a mile stone about mid- 
 way between Israel and the present,”’ according to 
 Rabbi Wise, it began with the Christ, the Chief 
 Corner Stone, which was rejected by the builders 
 and is laid in Zion. 
 
 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, 
 I lay in Sion a chief cornerstone, elect, precious: 
 and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded. 
 
 Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but 
 unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the 
 builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the 
 COPKET ee 
 
 For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your 
 faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do 
 well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is 
 acceptable with God. 
 
 For even hereunto were ye called; because Christ also 
 suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should 
 follow his steps—I PETER 2: 6, 7, 20, 21. 
 
 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I lay in 
 Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious 
 corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth 
 shall not make haste—IsataH 28: 16. 
 
 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his 
 hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty 
 God of Jacob; (from thence is the shepherd, the 
 stone of Israel: ) 
 
 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; 
 
LAW AND GRACE 131 
 
 and by the Almighty, who shall bless thee with 
 blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that 
 lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of the 
 womb.—GENESIS 49: 24, 25. 
 
 “Tn the beginning” is the beginning of Creation, 
 when the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost 
 said: “Let us make man in our image.” 
 
 Believers in Christ were chosen before the foun- 
 dation of the world. 
 
 According as he hath chosen us in him before the founda- 
 tion of the world, that we should be holy and without 
 blame before him in love: 
 
 Having predestinated us unio the adoption of children 
 by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good 
 pleasure of his will—EPHESIANS I: 4, 5. 
 
 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither 
 is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 
 
 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circum- 
 cision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in 
 the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.— 
 ROMANS 2: 28, 29. 
 
 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is 
 there of circumcision? 
 
 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were 
 committed the oracles of God. 
 
 For what if some did not believe? shall their unbelief 
 make the faith of God without effect?—RoMANS 
 3: 1, 2, 3. 
 
 The seed of the woman was to bruise the ser- 
 
132 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 pent’s head. Here Christ Jesus the Lamb, the 
 Head of the Church, is also manifest: 
 
 But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than 
 the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with 
 glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should 
 taste death for every man. 
 
 For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified 
 are all of one: for which cause he is not ashamed to 
 call them brethren. 
 
 Saying, I will declare thy name unto my brethren, in 
 the midst of the church will I sing praise unto thee. 
 
 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, 
 Behold, I and the children which God hath given me. 
 
 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh 
 and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the 
 same; that through death he might destroy him that 
 had power of death, that is, the devil—HEBREWS 
 A O/T T2712, :14,. Also PSALMS 2221220 95% 
 
 Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple 
 of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will 
 write upon him the name of my God, and the name 
 of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which 
 cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will 
 write upon him my new name. 
 
 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith 
 unto the churches.—REVELATION 3: 12, 13. 
 
 And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and 
 between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy 
 head, and thou shalt bruise his heel_—GrENESIS 3: 15. 
 
 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be beautiful 
 and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be ex- 
 
LAW AND GRACE 133 
 
 cellent and comely, for them thai are escaped of 
 Israel. 
 
 And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, 
 and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called 
 holy, even every one that is written among the living 
 in Jerusalem. ... 
 
 And there shall be a tabernacle for a shadow in the 
 daytime from the heat, and for a place of refuge, and 
 for a covert from storm and from rain.—ISAIAH 4: 2, 
 
 ae. 
 
 And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet 
 _ Shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with 
 you. Amen.—ROMANS 16: 20. 
 
 The head of the Christian Church, Jesus Christ, 
 we believe was He whom Scripture calls ‘The 
 Angel of the Lord” when relating His commands to 
 Balaam. 
 
 And God came unto Balaam ait night, and said unto 
 him, If the men come to call thee, rise up, and go 
 with them; but yet the word which I shall say unto 
 thee, that shalt thou do. ... 
 
 And God’s anger was kindled because he went: and the 
 angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary 
 against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his 
 two servants were with him. . . 
 
 And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass, and she 
 said unto Balaam, What have I done unto thee, that 
 thou hast smitten me these three times? ... 
 
 And the angel of the Lord said unio Balaam, Go with 
 the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto 
 thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with 
 the princes of Balak.—NUMBERS 22: 20, 22, 28, 35. 
 
134 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And Balak said unto Balaam, Neither curse them at all, 
 nor bless them at all. 
 
 But Balaam answered and said unto Balak, Told not I 
 thee, saying, All that the Lord speaketh, that I must 
 do?—-NUMBERS 23: 25, 26. 
 
 The Head of the Christian Church spoke also to 
 Joshua and informed him as He did Moses in the 
 bush that the place whereon he stood was holy 
 ground. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that 
 he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there 
 stood a man over against him with his sword drawn 
 in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said 
 unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries? 
 
 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the 
 Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face 
 to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, 
 What saith my Lord unto his servant, 
 
 And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, 
 Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place 
 whereon thou standest is holy. And Joskua did so. 
 —JOSHUA 5: 13, 14, 15. 
 
 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into 
 thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the 
 mighty men of valour.-—JOSHUA 6: 2. 
 
 Immediately after man was created we have in 
 Scripture the name of God as The Lord, and Lord 
 God—not before that event. 
 
 From the address of Rabbi Wise we again are 
 informed that: “It is difficult to define a Faith 
 
LAW AND GRACE 135 
 
 which began four thousand years ago and still 
 comprises a group of vital believers, for within a 
 period of four thousand years religious views and 
 aspirations change.” 
 
 Honourable as may be the faith and personage of 
 changing Israel, does not the situation warrant the 
 question: Is Israel’s present faith of the Synagogue, 
 the faith of Abraham that was accounted unto him 
 for righteousness? We do not find it to be the 
 faith mentioned in the Bible. 
 
 Is this the song that is now being sung in Pales- 
 tine? 
 
 In that day shall this song be sung in the land of Judah; 
 We have a strong city: salvation will God appoint 
 for walls and bulwarks. 
 
 Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which 
 keepeth the truth may enter in. 
 
 Thou shalt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. 
 
 Trust ye in the Lord forever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH 
 is everlasting strength. ... 
 
 Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body 
 shall they arise. Awake and sing, ye that dwell in 
 dust: for thy dew is as the dew of herbs, and the 
 earth shall cast out the dead. 
 
 Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and 
 shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for 
 a little moment, until the indignation be overpast. 
 
 For, behold, the Lord cometh out of his place to punish 
 the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity; the 
 earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more 
 cover her slain.—IsAIAH 26: I, 2, 3, 4, 19, 20, 21. 
 
136 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Does the faith of the centurion in Jesus when 
 He healed at Capernaum now exist in the Syna- 
 goguer 
 
 And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there 
 came unto him a centurion, beseeching him, 
 
 And saying, Lord, my servant lieth at home sick of 
 the palsy, grievously tormented. 
 
 And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him. 
 
 The centurion answered and said, Lord, I am not 
 worthy that thou shouldest come under my roof: 
 but speak the word only, and my servant shall be 
 healed. 
 
 For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under 
 me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to 
 another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, 
 Do this, and he doeth it. 
 
 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them 
 that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found 
 so great faith, no, not in Israel. 
 
 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the 
 east and west, and shall sit down with Abraham, 
 and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven. 
 
 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into 
 outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing 
 of teeth. 
 
 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and 
 as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And 
 his servant was healed in the selfsame hour —Mat- 
 THEW 8: 5-13. 
 
 It is the Christian Era that gave birth to the 
 covenant of Faith. Before, in the Old Testament, 
 there existed the covenant of Works under the 
 law. 
 
LAW AND GRACE 137 
 
 For ail the prophets and the law prophesied until John. 
 —MAtTTHEW ITI: 13. 
 
 The word “Faith” occurs only once, I believe, in 
 the Old Testament, authorized version, and that in- 
 stance not confirming Faith as exercised by Israel. 
 Where it occurs in the New Testament when used 
 in connection as a saving power, it is always as a 
 trusting quality in God. 
 
 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us 
 together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved.)— 
 EPHESIANS 2: 5. 
 
 Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the 
 end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to 
 that only which is of the law, but to that also which 
 is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us 
 all— ROMANS 4: 16. 
 
 FROM “STUDIES IN JUDAISM”’ 
 
 “But when Revelation or the Written Word is re- 
 duced to the level of history, there is no difficulty in 
 elevating history in its aspect of Tradition to the rank 
 of Scripture, for both have then the same human or 
 divine origin (according to the student’s predilection 
 for the one or the other adjective), and emanate from 
 the same authority. Tradition becomes thus the means 
 whereby the modern divine seeks to compensate him- 
 self for the loss of the Bible, and the theological balance 
 is to the satisfaction of all parties happily readjusted. 
 
 “Jewish Tradition, or, as it is commonly called, the 
 Oral Law, or, as we may term it (in consideration of 
 
138 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 its claims to represent an interpretation of the Bible), 
 the Secondary Meaning of the Scriptures, is mainly em- 
 bodied in the works of the Rabbis and their subsequent 
 followers during the Middle Ages. Hence the zeal and 
 energy with which the historical school applied itself 
 to the Jewish post-Biblical literature, not only eluci- 
 dating its texts by means of new critical editions, dic- 
 tionaries, and commentaries, but also trying to trace its 
 origins and to pursue its history through its gradual de- 
 velopment.” 
 
 The learned author of “Studies of Judaism” 
 from which we quote, considers that there is no 
 difficulty in elevating history in its aspect of Tra- 
 dition to the rank of Scripture, when Revelation or 
 the Written Word is reduced to the level of his- 
 tory. 
 
 This is equivalent to saying when the authority 
 of Scripture given by inspiration of God is reduced 
 to the level of history, there is no difficulty in ele- 
 vating history in its aspect of Tradition to the 
 rank of Scripture. 
 
 But may we not state that such a comparison 
 could only be made when Revelation or the Written 
 Word was so reduced. And when did it ever 
 happen that the Written Word was ever so re- 
 duced seeing that all Scripture is by inspiration of 
 God,—or who, except God, could raise the Tradi- 
 tions or word of man to the written word of God. 
 
 And that from a child thou hast known the holy scrip- 
 tures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation 
 through faith which is in Christ Jesus. 
 
LAW AND GRACE 139 
 
 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profit- 
 able for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
 instruction in righteousness: 
 
 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly fur- 
 nished unto all good works —Il TiMotTHy 3: 15-17. 
 
 BALAAM’S PROPHECY 
 
 By the word of God, Scripture states that 
 Balaam made the following prophecy. Showing 
 Israel should dwell alone and not be among the 
 nations for a time. 
 
 And the Lord put a word in Balaam’s mouth, and said, 
 Return unto Balak, and thus thou shalt speak. 
 
 And he returned unto him, and, lo, he stood by his 
 burnt sacrifice, he, and all the princes of Moab. 
 
 And he took up his parable, and said, Balak the king 
 of Moab hath brought me from Aram, out of the 
 mouniains of the east, saying, Come, curse me Jacob, 
 and come, defy Israel. 
 
 How shall I curse, whom God hath not cursed? or how 
 shall I defy, whom the Lord hath not defied? 
 
 For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the 
 hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, 
 and shall not be reckoned among the nations. 
 
 Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of 
 the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of 
 the righteous, and let my last end be like his!— 
 NUMBERS 23: 5-10. 
 
 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion; 
 who shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth 
 thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee... . 
 
 And now, behold, I go unto my people: come there- 
 
140 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 fore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall 
 do to thy people in the latter days. 
 
 And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son 
 of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open 
 hath said: 
 
 He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew 
 the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision 
 of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his 
 eyes open: 
 
 I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not 
 nigh; there shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a 
 Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the 
 corners of Moab and destroy all the children of Sheth. 
 ~—NUMBERS 24: 9, 14, 15, 16, 17. 
 
VI 
 
 JACOB’S PROPHECY CONCERNING 
 SHILOH 
 
 ND Jacob called unio his sons, and said, Gather 
 
 A yourselves together, that I may tell you that 
 
 which shall befall you in the last days. 
 
 Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; 
 and hearken unto Israel your father... . 
 
 Judah is a lion’s whelp: from the prey, my son, thou 
 art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, 
 and as an old lion: who shall rouse him up? 
 
 The scepire shall not depart from Judah, nor a law- 
 giver from between his feet, until Shiloh come, and 
 unto him shall the gathering of the people be. 
 
 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass’s colt unto 
 the choice vine; he washed his garments in wine, and 
 his clothes in the blood of grapes: 
 
 His eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white 
 with milk.—GENESIS 49: I, 2,9, 10, II, 12. 
 
 The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 
 
 Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim 
 there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, 
 all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship 
 hEwVLOrdaoe:. 
 
 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land 
 that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever.— 
 JEREMIAH 7: 1, 2, 7. 
 
 Behold, he cometh with the clouds; and every eye shall 
 see him, and they also which pierced him: and all 
 I4I 
 
142 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even 
 so, Amen. 
 
 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, 
 saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which 
 és to come, the Almighty.—REVELATION I: 7, 8. 
 
 It is plain to the believer in Jesus Christ that 
 the above contains prophecies of His coming to 
 earth again. 
 
 We find that Jesus Christ did not recognise Jew- 
 ish tradition as the Scripture or Word of God by 
 mouth, and we do not find these traditions in the 
 Old Testament. 
 
 JEWISH TRADITION 
 
 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were 
 of Jerusalem, saying. 
 
 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the 
 elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat 
 bread. 
 
 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also 
 transgress the commandment of God by your tradi- 
 tion? 
 
 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his 
 mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be 
 profited by me; 
 
 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be 
 free, Thus have ye made the commandment of God of 
 none effect by your tradition—MAtTTHEW I5: 1-6. 
 
 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doc- 
 trines the commandments of men. 
 For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 143 
 
 tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and 
 many other such like things ye do. 
 
 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the com- 
 mandment of God, that ye may keep your own tra- 
 ston... 
 
 Making the word of God of none effect through your 
 tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such 
 like things do ye.—Mark 7: 7, 8, 9, 13. 
 
 We quote from pages 16 and 17 from the In- 
 troduction to Schechter’s “Studies in Judaism”’: 
 Zunz, he states, was just as emphatic in asserting 
 the claims of Tradition, as he was advanced in his 
 views on Bible criticism. 
 
 “Tsrael,” he says, “continues to consult God through 
 the medium of the Scriptures, and He answers His 
 people by the mouth of the Scribes, the Sages, the 
 Interpreters of the Law; whilst the liturgy of the 
 Synagogue, springing up at the time when Psalms were 
 still being composed, expands in its later stages through 
 the work of the Poets of the Synagogue into such a rich 
 luxuriance.” 
 
 But considering that the answer from God is 
 here said to be given to His people by the mouth 
 of the Scribes, may we not make reference to 
 Scripture to find from that source the value then 
 given to the work of the Scribes and to what they 
 brought to God’s chosen people by word of mouth. 
 
 It seems that in our Saviour’s time, the Scribes 
 were honoured because of their being in Moses’ 
 seat, and they had with them Moses’ law, but what . 
 
144 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 they bound their people with, were grievous bur- 
 dens which they themselves failed to bear. 
 
 Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples, 
 
 Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ 
 seat: 
 
 All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that ob- 
 serve and do; but do not ye after their works: for 
 they say, and do not. 
 
 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, 
 and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they them- 
 selves will not move them with one of their 
 PNZETS Aas sc 
 
 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! 
 for ye shui up the kingdom of heaven against men: 
 for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them 
 that are entering to goin. ... 
 
 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye 
 pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have 
 omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, 
 mercy and faith: these ought ye to have done, and 
 not to leave the other undone. 
 
 Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow 
 a camel.— MATTHEW 23: I, 2, 3, 4, 13, 23, 24. 
 
 The scribes and Pharisees in our Saviour’s time 
 were faced by Him with arguments they could not 
 answer regarding His Sonship. 
 
 And Jesus answered and said, while he taught in the 
 temple, How say the scribes that Christ is the son of 
 David? 
 
 For David himself said by the Holy Ghost, The Lord 
 said to my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, till I 
 make thine enemies thy footstool. 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 145 
 
 David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence 
 is he then his son? And the common people heard 
 him gladiy—MArk 12: 35, 36, 37. 
 
 Jesus Christ is called to-day an honoured man 
 and a credit to the race by Jews, and by Gentiles. 
 Could He have been such if what He said of Him- 
 self when He was asked if He was the Christ, had 
 been untrue. 
 
 And as soon as it was day, the elders of the people and 
 the chief priests and the scribes came together, and 
 led him into their council, saying, 
 
 Art thou the Christ? tell us. And he said unto them, 
 If I tell you, ye will not believe; 
 
 And if I also ask you, ye will not answer me, nor let me 
 go. 
 
 Hereafter shall the Son of man sit on the right hand 
 of the power of God. 
 
 Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? 
 And he said unto them, Ye say that I am. 
 
 And they said, What need we any further witness? for 
 we ourselves have heard of his own mouth—LukeE 
 22: 66-71. 
 
 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or 
 
 _ the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
 
 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
 law, til all be fulfilled —MATTHEW 5: 17, 18. 
 
 If not, no jot nor tittle was to pass from the 
 law till all be fulfilled. How could the so-called 
 Oral Law be justly considered on a footing with 
 the written law of Moses by many Jews? 
 
146 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 The writer feels that it is proper that some of 
 the said to be Oral Law of Moses should be here 
 presented for consideration, as well as some asser- 
 tions regarding such oral law and we present it as 
 from Jewish authority. 
 
 Quotation is here again made from ‘Studies in 
 Judaism” by Schechter, (page 19, of the Intro- 
 duction). 
 
 “Tt was the veto of the Rabbis which excluded from 
 the canon the works that now pass under the name of 
 Apocrypha. We may, therefore, safely trust that the 
 Synagogue will again assert its divine right in passing 
 judgment upon the Bible when it feels called upon to 
 exercise that holy office. It is ‘God who has chosen 
 the Torah, and Moses His servant, and Israel His 
 people.’ But indeed God’s choice invariably coincides 
 with the wishes of Israel.” 
 
 We deem it best here to insert portions from 
 Moses’ Law (Torah) and from Isaiah which de- 
 clares that atonement is needed by all men. 
 
 And the priest shall make an atonement for the soul that 
 sinneth ignorantly, when he sinneth by ignorance 
 before the Lord, to make an atonement for him; 
 and it shall be forgiven him.——NUMBERS 15: 28. 
 
 If Balak would give me his house full of silver and 
 gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment of the 
 Lord, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; 
 but what the Lord saith, that will I speak? —Num- 
 BERS 24: I3. 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 147 
 
 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is 
 stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee-—Isatau 
 26353: 
 
 It is not to the Synagogue that the promise is 
 given that all their counsel will be fulfilled of God, 
 but it is so given to the Anointed of God, the 
 King, who is to be helped from the Sanctuary and 
 strengthened out of Zion. 
 
 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of 
 the God of Jacob defend thee. ... 
 
 Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed: he will 
 hear him from his holy. heaven with the saving 
 strength of his right hand—PsaLM 20:1, 6. 
 
 The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy 
 salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 
 
 Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not 
 withholden the request of his lips-—PSALM 21: 1, 2. 
 
 Nevertheless ke saved them for his name’s sake, that 
 he might make his mighty power to be known. 
 
 They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his 
 counsel.—PSALM 1006: 8, 13. 
 
 THE LORD WILL GATHER ISRAEL ACCORDING 
 TO HIS WORD 
 
 It is the Lord, our God, who is to gather Israel, 
 the Psalmist prays to that end. 
 
 Save us, O Lord our God, and gather us from among the 
 heathen, to give thanks unto thy holy name, and to 
 triumph in thy praise. 
 
 Blessed be the Lord God of Israel from everlasting to 
 
148 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 everlasting: and let all the people say, Amen. Praise 
 ye the Lord.—PSAtM 106: 47, 48. 
 
 Judah and Israel are cited separately, the one to 
 be saved, the other to dwell safely. 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will raise 
 unto David a righteous Branch, and a King shall 
 reign and prosper and shall execute judgment and 
 justice in the earth. 
 
 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be called, 
 THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. ... 
 
 The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have 
 executed, and till he have performed the thoughts 
 of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it 
 perfectly.— JEREMIAH 23: 5, 6, 20. 
 
 Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! 
 when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his 
 people, Jacob shall rejoice and Israel shall be glad. 
 —PSALM I4: 7. 
 
 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them 
 that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. 
 —ISAIAH 59: 20. 
 
 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant 
 of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own 
 conceits ; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, 
 until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in. 
 
 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There 
 shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn 
 away ungodiiness from Jacob; 
 
 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take 
 away their sins. 
 
 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 149 
 
 sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved 
 for the fathers’ sakes. 
 
 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. 
 —ROMANS ITI: 25-29. 
 
 It is God’s counsel we are to stand in for turning 
 to Him, His Words we should hear. When Jere- 
 miah prophesied, ,\God spake from afar. He said 
 that the Kingdom of Heaven was at hand, by the 
 words of His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ. He 
 still speaks to Judah and Israel by Him and by His 
 apostle Paul. And here is witnessing from the 
 Cross, from Daniel, the Psalms and Isaiah. 
 
 And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thy- 
 self. 
 
 And a superscription also was writien over him in letters 
 of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING 
 OF THE JEWS.—LUKE 23: 37, 38. 
 
 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing 
 my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and pre- 
 senting my supplication before the Lord my God for 
 the holy mountain of my God; 
 
 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man 
 Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the be- 
 ginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about 
 the time of the evening oblation. 
 
 And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O 
 Daniel, I am now, come forth to give thee skill and 
 understanding DANIEL 9: 20, 21, 22. 
 
 Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou 
 wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear 
 to hear.—PSALM 10: 17. 
 
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 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
 and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and 
 his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince 
 of Peace—ISAIAH 9: 6. 
 
 We again quote from “Studies in Judaism.” On 
 page 13, we have the following: 
 
 “All pursued that single study, the Torah. .. . For 
 under the word Torah was comprised not only the Law, 
 but also the contributions of later times expressing 
 either the thoughts or the emotions of holy and sincere 
 men; and even their honest scepticism was not entirely 
 excluded.” 
 
 As God alone is the best Judge of His own law, 
 we must naturally exclude from the law and also 
 from the prophets, all that the Scripture leaves un- 
 authorised in comparing the Bible with Jewish 
 Tenets. 
 
 The “Studies” from which we have quoted, gives 
 on page twelve, the following witnessing to the great 
 value of the first tenets held by Israel as the Law, 
 taken from a Hebrew hymn: 
 
 Destroyed lies Zion and profaned, 
 Of splendour and renown bereft, 
 Her ancient glories wholly waned, 
 One deathless treasure only left; 
 Still ours, O Lord, 
 Thy Holy Word. 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 151 
 
 The deep respect here expressed for a “death- 
 less Word,” a Word which is now living, is evidence 
 to the truth of our Lord’s words, spoken to Jews. 
 
 Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have 
 eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. 
 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life — 
 
 JOHN 5: 39, 40. 
 
 And in “Hebrews” its writer referring to the 
 Prophets, says: | 
 
 For the law having a shadow of good things to come, 
 and not the very image of the things, can never with 
 those sacrifices which they offered year by year con- 
 tinually make the comers thereunto perfect... . 
 
 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of 
 goats should take away sins. 
 
 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, 
 Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body 
 hast thou prepared me; 
 
 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had 
 no pleasure. 
 
 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it 
 is written of me) to do thy will, O God. 
 
 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt 
 offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, 
 neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by 
 the law; 
 
 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God, He 
 taketh away the first, that he may establish the 
 second. 
 
 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering 
 
152 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 of the body of Jesus Christ once for all—HEBREWS 
 10: I, 4-10. 
 
 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears 
 hast thou opened; burnt offering and sin offering hast 
 thou not required. 
 
 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book it 
 is written of mé.—PSALM 40: 6, 7. 
 
 I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much 
 as in all riches. 
 
 I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto 
 thy ways. 
 
 I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget 
 thy word.—PsALM 119: 14-16. 
 
 THE CHRISTIAN HAS A PART IN ZION 
 
 But in Zion the Jew and the Christian both have 
 a part, a part in the future, if not now. For Christ 
 the Son is King. 
 
 Yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion. 
 
 I will declare the decree: the Lord hath said unto me, 
 Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee. 
 Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine 
 inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth 
 
 for thy possession—PSALM 2: 6, 7, 8. 
 
 When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in 
 his glory. 
 
 He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not 
 despise their prayer. 
 
 This shall be written for the generation to come: and 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 153 
 
 the people which shall be created shall praise the 
 Lord. 
 
 For he hath looked down from the height of his sanc- 
 tuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth— 
 PSALM 102: 16-19. 
 
 The righteous also shall see, and fear, and shall laugh 
 at him, 
 
 Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; 
 but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and 
 strengthened himself in his wickedness—PsSaLM 
 B20 107075 
 
 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let 
 us go up to the mountain of the Lord, to the house of 
 the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, 
 and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall 
 go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from 
 Jerusalem.—ISAIAH 2: 3. 
 
 And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the 
 midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto 
 1 a ee 
 
 And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an 
 honeycomb. 
 
 And he took it, and did eat before them. 
 
 And he said unto them, These are the words which I 
 spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all 
 things must be fulfilled, which were written in the 
 law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, 
 concerning me. 
 
 Then opened he their understanding, that they might 
 understand the scriptures. 
 
 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it 
 behoved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead 
 the third day; 
 
134 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 And that repentance and remission of sins should be 
 preached in his name among all nations, beginning 
 at Jerusalem.—LUKE 24: 36, 42-47. 
 
 Now, therefore hearken, O Israel, unio the statutes and 
 unto the judgments, whick I teach you, for to do 
 them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the 
 land which the-Lord God of your fathers giveth 
 VOU rs 
 
 And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, 
 and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, 
 whither the Lord shall lead you. 
 
 And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, 
 wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, 
 nor smell, 
 
 But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, 
 thou shalt find him, if thou seck him with all thy 
 heart and with all thy soul. 
 
 When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are 
 come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn 
 to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto his 
 voice; 
 
 (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;) he will not 
 forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the 
 covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 4: I, 27-31. 
 
 The Jews will believe in the latter days; who 
 will believe now? 
 
 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek 
 the Lord their God, and David their king: and shail 
 fear the Lord and his goodness in the laiter days.— 
 HOSEA 3: 5. 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 155 
 
 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make 
 a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with 
 the house of Judah: 
 
 Not according to the covenant that I made with their 
 fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to 
 bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my 
 covenant they brake, although I was an husband 
 unto them, saith the Lord: 
 
 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with 
 the house of Israel: After those days, saith the Lord, 
 I will put my law in their inward parts, and write 
 it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they 
 shall be my people. 
 
 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, 
 and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; 
 for they shall all know me, from the least of them 
 unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will 
 forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin 
 no moré,—]JEREMIAH 31: 31-34. 
 
 For lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring 
 again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, 
 saith the Lord; and I will cause them to return to the 
 land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall 
 possess it. 
 
 And ye shall he! as people, and I will be your God. 
 
 The fierce anger of the Lord shall not return, ps he 
 have done it, and until he have performed the inients 
 of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it. 
 —JEREMIAH 30: 3, 22, 24. 
 
 Salvation is of the Jews. The hour cometh when 
 the true worshipper shall worship the Father in 
 spirit. At the well in Samaria, Jesus, Himself, de- 
 clared this should be so: 
 
156 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 The woman saith unto him, Sir, I perceive that thou 
 art a prophet. 
 
 Our fathers worshipped in this mountain; and ye say, 
 that in Jerusalem is the place where men ought to 
 worship. 
 
 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, believe me, the hour 
 cometh, when ye shall neither in this mountain, nor 
 yet at Jerusalem,.worship the Father. 
 
 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we wor- 
 ship: for salvation is of the Jews. 
 
 But the hour cometh and now is, when the true wor- 
 shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 
 truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
 
 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must wor- 
 ship him in spirit and in truth. 
 
 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, 
 which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell 
 us all things. 
 
 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he— 
 JOHN 4: 19-26. 
 
 The Lord will surely come and when He comes, 
 Jew and Gentile, will He find us ready? 
 
 The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and 
 called the earth from the rising of the sun unio the 
 going down thereof. 
 
 Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God hath 
 shined. 
 
 Our God shall come, and shall not keep siience: a fire 
 shall devour before him, and it shall be very tem- 
 pestuous round about him. 
 
 He shall call to the heavens from above, and to the 
 earth, that he may judge his people. 
 
 Gather my saints together unto me; those that have 
 made a covenant with me by sacrifice. 
 
PROPHECY CONCERNING SHILOH 157 
 
 And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for 
 God is judge himself. Selah. 
 
 Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I 
 will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God. 
 —PSALM 50: I-7. 
 
 Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law 
 of commandments coniained in ordinances; for to 
 make in himself of twain one new man, so making 
 peace: 
 
 And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body 
 by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby; 
 
 And came and preached peace to you which were afar 
 off, and to them that were nigh. 
 
 For through him we both have access by one Spirit 
 unto the Father EPHESIANS 2: 15-18. 
 
Vil 
 CONCLUSION 
 
 N conclusion we again take up the longings of 
 Jacob and Israel as set forth by Schechter in 
 “Studies of Judaism,” and by Rabbi Wise in 
 
 a recent lecture at Amsterdam, N. Y. 
 
 Schechter: 
 
 “The Synagogue with its long continuous cry after 
 God, for more than twenty-three centuries, with its un- 
 remittent activity in teaching and developing the word 
 of God.” 
 
 Rabbi Stephen S. Wise: 
 
 “Speaking of the Bible, he urged that the tendency 
 to regard it as a book should be overcome. It is a 
 literature, a library comprised between two covers. The 
 oldest antedates by one thousand years the latest. 
 Everything written in this literature of the Bible is the 
 story of a people who for two thousand years, from 
 Abraham to the Maccabees, were always inflexibly 
 searching toward God.” 
 
 We are not sure of the way by which Dr. Wise 
 has arrived at his conclusion regarding the Bible as 
 
 a literature. It will forever be known by the name 
 158 
 
CONCLUSION 159 
 
 God gave to Moses for it. “Book”—‘The Book” 
 —it will always be. 
 
 And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his 
 kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law 
 in a book out of that which is before the priests the 
 Levites: 
 
 And it shall be with him, and he shall read therein all 
 the days of his life: that he may learn to fear the 
 Lord his God, to keep all the words of this law and 
 these siatutes, to do them.—DEUTERONOMY 17: 18, 
 
 19. 
 
 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the 
 day that God created man, in the likeness of God 
 made he him.—GENESIS 5: I. 
 
 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy 
 God, to keep his commandments and Ms statuies 
 which are written in this book of the law, and if 
 thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, 
 and with all thy soul—-DEUTERONOMY 30: Io. 
 
 Neither in view of God’s commands can we con- 
 ceive of any authority from God to add to His 
 Book (The Bible) any written work of man. The 
 Holy Spirit by Whom the written word of God 
 was dictated is One in the Triune Godhead. 
 
 Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and 
 unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do 
 them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the 
 land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you. 
 
 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, 
 neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may 
 
160 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 keep the commandments of the Lord your God which 
 I command you... . 
 
 Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom 
 and your understanding in the sight of the nations, 
 which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely 
 this great nation is a wise and understanding people. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 4: 1, 2, 6. 
 
 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words 
 of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add 
 unto these things, God shall add unto him the 
 plagues that are writien in this book: 
 
 And if any man shall take away from the words of the 
 book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part 
 out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and 
 from the things which are written in this book.— 
 REVELATION 22: 18, 19. 
 
 But it is the longing of Israel—*ther long con- 
 tinuous cry after God” and “her always inflexibly 
 searching towards God’”—that the writer is con- 
 cerned with. Surely if we accept these statements 
 literally, do they find agreement with the history 
 of God’s Chosen People? 
 
 We prefer therefore, to accept these statements 
 as placing the Synagogue of God’s chosen people as 
 that of other religious organizations, having a pur- 
 pose of worshipping and finding God. 
 
 We learn from Holy Scripture that God drove 
 Adam from the garden of Eden,—that He did so 
 because man had acquired a knowledge of good 
 and evil and might take from the Tree of Life 
 and live forever. 
 
CONCLUSION 161 
 
 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as 
 one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he 
 put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
 and eat, and live for ever: 
 
 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
 of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was 
 taken.— GENESIS 3: 22, 23. 
 
 GOD’S PLAN FOR MAN 
 
 Is it not a reasonable belief that God’s plan for 
 man was that when he returned to Him to live for- 
 ever, it might be as one with His only begotten Son, 
 a new man in Christ Jesus, incapable of falling 
 away? 
 
 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in 
 knowledge after the image of him that created him. 
 —COLOSSIANS 3: I0. 
 
 For we are his workmanship, created in Jesus Christ 
 unto good works, which God hath before ordained 
 that we should walk in them. EPHESIANS 2: I0. 
 
 Is it unreasonable to believe that a part of His 
 plan in choosing from a heathen nation a chosen 
 people, was to help Him bring into the way of com- 
 ing back, those who so willed, and to open up that 
 way for all the world whom He so loved? 
 
 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only be- 
 gotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should 
 not perish, but have everlasting life—JoHN 3: 16. 
 
162 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 
 
 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, 
 that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is 
 pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand 
 double for all her sins. 
 
 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare 
 ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert 
 a highway for our God. 
 
 Every valiey shall be exalted, and every mountain and 
 hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made 
 straight, and the rough places plain. 
 
 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all 
 flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord 
 hath spoken it. 
 
 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up in the 
 high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tid- 
 ings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not 
 afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your 
 God! 
 
 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and 
 his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with 
 kim, and his work before him.—ISAIAH 40: I-5, 9, 10. 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me: because the Lord 
 hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the 
 meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 
 to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening 
 of the prison to them that are bound; 
 
 To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the 
 day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that 
 mourn. 
 
 To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give 
 unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourn- 
 ing, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; 
 that they might be called trees of righteousness, the 
 
CONCLUSION 163 
 
 planting of the Lord, that he mighi be glorified.— 
 ISAIAH 61: I-3. 
 
 And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of 
 Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: 
 
 And the spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the 
 spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of 
 counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of 
 the fear of the Lord.—IsaIaAH II: I, 2. 
 
 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into 
 Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through 
 all the region round about... . 
 
 And there was delivered unto him the book of the 
 prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, 
 he found the place where it was written, 
 
 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath 
 anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; ke 
 hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach 
 deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to 
 the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised. 
 
 To preach the acceptable year of the Lord—LvuKE 
 
 4: 14, 17-19. 
 
 The Chosen People knew God was on Mount 
 Sinai. May we ask why were they kept from the 
 mountain? Was it not for the reason that the veil 
 of the Temple was not yet rent. 
 
 And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, 
 saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up 
 into the mount, or touch the border of it: whoso- 
 ever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death, 
 —EXoDUS I9: 12. 
 
164 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, 
 yielded up the ghost. 
 
 And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain 
 from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, 
 and the rocks rent.—MATTHEW 27: 50, 5I. 
 
 Could God have with Him forever an unre- 
 deemed people? . Was not Israel with the world at 
 large afar off in Spirit and in Truth? 
 
 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew 
 not; I will lead them in paths that they have not 
 known: I will make darkness light before them, and 
 crooked things straight. These things will I do 
 unto them, and not forsake them.—IsaIAH 42: 16. 
 
 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we wor- 
 ship: for salvation is of the Jews. 
 
 But the hour cometh, and now is, when the true wor- 
 shippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in 
 truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. 
 
 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must wor- 
 ship him in spirit and in truth—-JOHN 4: 22, 24. 
 
 The Kingdom of Heaven was at hand. 
 
 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and 
 he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, 
 come, buy wine and milk without money and with- 
 out price. 
 
 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not 
 bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? 
 hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is 
 good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul 
 
CONCLUSION 165 
 
 shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant 
 with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
 
 Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a 
 leader and commander to the people —-ISAIAH 55: I-4. 
 
 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
 called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS. 
 
 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that 
 they shall no more say, The Lord liveth, which 
 brought up the children of Israel out of the land of 
 Egypt: 
 
 Bui, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led 
 the seed of the house of Israel out of the north coun- 
 try and from all countries whither I had driven them; 
 and they shall dwell in their own land.—JEREMIAH 
 23: 6-8. 
 
 Is there any voice crying out, ““How can we find 
 the waters so refreshing as Isaiah describes them?” 
 Yes, I believe there are many such voices. 
 
 Will the answer to them still continue to be: 
 “Follow the commands given on Mount Sinai’’? 
 
 But the cry goes out,—‘‘We have tried it and 
 still we are crying after God.” Is there no other 
 way? Scripture answers with another call like the 
 call of Isaiah—“‘Come.” 
 
 Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of 
 them shall not fall on the ground without your 
 Father. 
 
 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.— 
 MATTHEW I0: 29, 30. 
 
166 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Is there still a cry for the way? Yes, and many 
 cries. 
 
 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel 
 had walked in my ways!—PSALM 81: 13. 
 
 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto 
 me, and heard my cry. ... 
 
 Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears 
 hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast 
 thou not required. 
 
 Then said I, Lo, I come: in the volume of the book 
 it is written of me. 
 
 I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is 
 within my heart-—PsALM 40: 1, 6, 7, 8. 
 
 The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, 
 which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell 
 us all things. 
 
 Jesus saith unto her, I that speak unto thee am he... . 
 
 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him 
 that sent me, and to finish his work. 
 
 Say not ye, There are yet four months, and then cometh 
 harvest? behold, I say unto you, Lift up your eyes, 
 and look on the fields; for they are white already 
 to harvest —JOHN 4: 25, 26, 34, 35. 
 
 They who hunger and thirst after righteousness 
 are filled with the righteousness which is by grace 
 through faith such as Abraham had, in place of 
 self-righteousness, which Isaiah the prophet de- 
 scribes as filthy rags. 
 
 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after right- 
 cousness: for they shall be filled—-MatTHEW 5: 6. 
 
CONCLUSION 167 
 
 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now 
 toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be able to 
 number them: and he said unto him, So shali thy 
 seed be. 
 
 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
 for righteousness —GENESIS 15: 5, 6. 
 
 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteous- 
 nesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; 
 and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us 
 away.—ISAIAH 64: 6. 
 
 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he 
 seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and 
 the rest were blinded... . 
 
 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? 
 God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation 
 is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to 
 jealousy.— ROMANS II: 7, II. 
 
 Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted 
 to him for righteousness. 
 
 Know ye therefore that they which are, of faith, the 
 same are the children of Abraham—GaLaTIANS 
 
 MPO NRA 
 
 And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.— 
 GENESIS 12: 3. 
 
 And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify 
 the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel 
 unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be 
 blessed. 
 
 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faith- 
 ful Abraham.—GALATIANS 3: 8, 9. 
 
168 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of 
 God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith. 
 . . . For it is written, Cursed is every one that con- 
 tinueth not in all things which are written in the 
 book of the law to do them.—GaLATIANS 3: II, Io. 
 
 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this 
 law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 27: 26. 
 
 And the law is not of faith: but, The man that doeth 
 them shall live in them. 
 
 Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being 
 made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every 
 one that hangeth on a tree: 
 
 That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gen- 
 tiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the 
 promise of the Spirit through faith—GaLaTIANS 
 
 SeLagir sg LA. 
 
 For he that is hanged is accursed of God.—DEUTER- 
 ONOMY 21: 23. 
 
 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husband- 
 man. 
 
 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh 
 away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth 
 it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 
 
 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken 
 unto you. 
 
 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear 
 fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more 
 can ye, except ye abide in me. 
 
 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in 
 me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: 
 for without me ye can do nothing —JOHN 15: 1-5. 
 
CONCLUSION 169 
 
 Salvation, not only belongs to God, but is His 
 alone to give. He has given it in Jesus Christ. 
 
 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not 
 of yourselves: it is the gift of God—EPHESIANS 
 28:8. 
 
 For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall 
 feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains 
 of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from 
 theiy eyes REVELATION 7: 17. 
 
 If one come in answer to our call to tell us how 
 to reach the summit of a high mountain and should 
 tell us to follow the instructions given, we may fail 
 if we find the way closed by obstacles we do not 
 overcome. But if one says, “Come with me in a 
 new way, I live on the summit,” and also with 
 those of a humble spirit, we may feel sure of 
 reaching His home,—such a one is Jesus Christ. 
 
 And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that 
 came down from heaven, even the Son of man which 
 is in heaven.—JOHN 3: I3. 
 
 Enoch was taken to heaven by God. 
 
 And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God 
 took him—GENESIS 5: 24. 
 
 Elijah was taken up by God. 
 
 And it came to pass, when the Lord would take up Elijah 
 into heaven by a whirlwind, that Elijah went with 
 Elisha from Gilgal—tII Kincs 2: 1. 
 
170 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Jesus Christ ascended into heaven. 
 
 And while they looked steadfastly toward heaven as h2 
 went up, behold, two men stood by them in white 
 apparel.—ACTS I: 10. 
 
 For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth 
 eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high 
 and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and 
 humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and 
 to revive the heart of the contrite ones—IsAIAH 
 
 57: 15. 
 
 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither wil 
 he forsake his inheritance.—PSALM 94: 14. 
 
 All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and 
 him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.— 
 JOHN 6: 37. 
 
 Remember ye not the former things, neither consider 
 the things of old. 
 
 Behold, I will do a new thing ; now it shall spring forth; 
 shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the 
 wilderness, and rivers in the desert. 
 
 The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and 
 the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and 
 rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my 
 chosen. 
 
 This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew 
 forth my praise. 
 
 But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou 
 hast been weary of me, O Israel.—IsAIAH 43: 18-22. 
 
 Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the 
 holiest by the blood of Jesus. 
 
CONCLUSION 171 
 
 By a new and living way, which he hath consecrated 
 for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh: 
 
 And having an high priest over the house of God. 
 
 Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of 
 faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil con- 
 science, and our bodies washed with pure water.— 
 HEBREWS I0: 19-22. 
 
 And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy 
 land, and shall choose Jerusalem again. 
 
 Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord: for he is raised 
 up out of his holy habitation ZECHARIAH 2: 12, 13. 
 
 By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged ; 
 and this is all the fruit to take away his sin: when 
 he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones 
 that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall 
 not stand up—ISAIAH 27: 9. 
 
 Then understood they how, that he bade them not be- 
 ware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of 
 the Pharisees and of the Sadducees—MatrHew 
 16: 12. 
 
 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is 
 profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for 
 instruction in righteousness.—\I TimMotTHy 3: 16. 
 
 And it came to pass, when Jesus had ended these say- 
 ings, the people were astonished at his doctrine.— 
 MATTHEW 7: 28. 
 
 And he taught them many things by parables, and said 
 unto them in his doctrine—-Mark 4: 2. 
 
 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines 
 the commandments of men.—MATTHEW IS: 9. 
 
172 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 Even Balaam and the Nicolaitanes had a doc- 
 trine, 
 
 But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast 
 there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who 
 taught Balac to cast a stumbling block before the 
 children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, 
 and to commit fornication. 
 
 So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the 
 Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.—REVELATION 2: 14, 
 
 15. 
 
 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; 
 the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the 
 simple.—PSALM 19: 7. 
 
 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understand- 
 ing, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.— 
 ISAIAH 29: 24. 
 
 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doc- 
 trine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of 
 myself -—JOHN 7: 17. 
 
 For I give you good doctrine, forsake ye not my law.— 
 PROVERBS 4: 2. 
 
 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause 
 divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which 
 ye have learned; and avoid them.—RoMANS 16: 17. 
 
 Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their 
 own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of 
 God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.—l T1mMoTHY 
 ohh & 
 
CONCLUSION 173 
 
 Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in_ the 
 doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in 
 the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and 
 the Son—tI JouHn 9. 
 
 It has been written that “an undevout astronomer 
 is mad’”—presumably so when the best of human 
 nature in the make-up of man fails to appreciate 
 the grandeur of the Heavens that “are telling 
 the glory of God.” So it seems like it when the 
 majesty of the words of God by the Jewish Prophet 
 Isaiah fail to be appreciated by the reader or the 
 hearer. Where in all the realm of words has the 
 love of Fatherhood for the erring, gone beyond this 
 lament of Jesus Christ over Jerusalem. 
 
 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ... how often would I have 
 gathered thy children together, even as a hen gath- 
 ereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 
 —MATTHEW 23: 37. 
 
 The Spirit of Him that was made flesh and dwelt 
 among us and is interceding with “groanings that 
 cannot be uttered,’ will prevail. 
 
 Not alone are the heavens declaring the glory of 
 God: 
 
 The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firma- 
 nent sheweth his handywork—PsALM Ig: I. 
 
 And the Prophets are declaring the glory of God 
 that now is, and which is to come. Does not the 
 
174. THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 prophet in the eighty-fifth Psalm, tell us both of the 
 present and the future of Jacob? 
 
 Lord, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou 
 hast brought back the captivity of Jacob... . 
 
 Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness 
 shall look down from heaven. 
 
 Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our 
 land shall yield her increase. 
 
 Righteousness shall go before him; and shall set us in 
 the way of his steps—-PSALM 85: 1, II-13. 
 
 If righteousness looks down from heaven, may 
 we not look up to heaven for righteousness with 
 success, and not to ourselves with failure? 
 
 Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies 
 pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let 
 them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness 
 spring up together; I the Lord have created it... . 
 
 Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his 
 Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, 
 and concerning the work of my hands command ye 
 me. 
 
 I have made the earth, and created man upon it: TI, 
 even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and 
 all their hosts have I commanded.—IsatauH 45: 8, 
 LP yo 
 
 Seek ye the Lord while he may be found, call ye upon 
 him while he is near. 
 
 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous 
 man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, 
 and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, 
 for he will abundantly pardon.—IsataH 55: 6, 7. 
 
CONCLUSION 175 
 
 In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell 
 safely: and this is his name whereby he shall be 
 
 _ called, THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS.—JEREMIAH 
 23... 0; 
 
 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm 
 of the Lord revealed? ... 
 
 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sor- 
 rows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of 
 God, and afflicted. | 
 
 Bui he was wounded for our transgressions, he was 
 bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our 
 peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are 
 healed.—IsAIAH 53:1, 4, 5. 
 
 Was it only a mere accident that placed the 
 twenty-third Psalm to follow the twenty-second 
 Psalm,—or was it that the agony of the Redeemer 
 of Jacob and of the world God so loved,—should be 
 declared in Jesus’ own words by the Spirit when 
 telling of the price paid on the Cross in the twenty- 
 second Psalm? 
 
 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why 
 art thou so far from helping me, and from the words 
 of my roaring? ..., 
 
 But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises 
 of Israel—PSALM 22: I, 3. 
 
 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, 
 saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, 
 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?— 
 MATTHEW 27: 46. 
 
176 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 In the other, the twenty-third Psalm, the Re- 
 deemed should rejoice in the redemption which 
 followed the price paid, as they accept release from 
 their bonds: 
 
 The Lord is my Shepherd; I shall not want. 
 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth 
 me beside the still waters—PSALM 23: I, 2. 
 
 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and 
 he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, 
 come, buy wine and milk without money and with- 
 out price. 
 
 Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your 
 soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting 
 covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. 
 —ISAIAH 55: I, 3. 
 
 Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil 
 the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged 
 Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good 
 courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.—I CHRONICLES 
 pA eds a 
 
 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the 
 prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil. 
 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, 
 one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the 
 
 law, till all be fulfilled —MATTHEW 5: 17, 18. 
 
 GOD’Ss PLAN AND PROMISE 
 
 And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look now 
 toward heaven, and tell the siars, if thou be able to 
 number them: and he said unto him, So shall thy 
 seed be. 
 
CONCLUSION 177 
 
 And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him 
 for righteousness —GENESIS I5: 5, 6. 
 
 As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou 
 shalt be a father of many nations——GENESIS 17: 4. 
 
 For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, 
 was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, 
 but through the righteousness of faith—ROMANS 
 
 LAE 
 
 You only have I known of all the families of the earth: 
 therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. 
 Can two walk together, except they be agreed.—Amos 
 
 pes 
 
 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because 
 I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O 
 Israel—AMOS 4: I2. 
 
 But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus 
 is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye 
 might have life through his name.—JOHN 20: 31. 
 
 For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto — 
 the Father —EPHESIANS 2: 18. 
 
 If man, knowing good and evil could, through 
 the law, become capable in himself of choosing the 
 good and shunning the evil, having no need of a 
 Redeemer, could attain to the perfection God re- 
 quires,—why, may we ask, was he sent forth from 
 the Garden of Eden when he was capable of taking 
 of the tree of life and living forever? 
 
 It was because he might have Christ for a Re- 
 
178 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 deemer and enter into that eternal life which is 
 Jesus Christ alone and was not in the tree that 
 would make him live forever, but would not make 
 him one with Christ, as Christ is one with the 
 Father, and thus not only live forever but through 
 the Son of God be brought into the family of God, 
 whom he could have as a Father, becoming capable 
 of being through faith (a gift of God) raised from 
 the dead by Jesus Christ, to dwell with Him for- 
 ever. 
 
 And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become 
 as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he 
 put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, 
 and eat, and live for ever: 
 
 Therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden 
 of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. 
 —GENESIS 3: 22, 23. 
 
 And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are 
 yet in your sins —I CORINTHIANS I5: 17. 
 
 So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful 
 Abraham. 
 
 For as many as are of the works of the law are under 
 the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that 
 continueth not in all things which are written in the 
 book of the law to do them —GALaTIANS 3: 9, I0. 
 
 Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this 
 law to do them. And all the people shall say, Amen. 
 —DEUTERONOMY 27: 26. 
 
 God also bearing them witness, both with signs and won- 
 ders, and with divers miracles, and gifts of the Holy 
 
CONCLUSION 179 
 Ghost, according to his own will?-—-HEBREWS 2: 4. 
 
 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: 
 and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and 
 his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The 
 mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of 
 Peace.—ISAIAH 9: 6. 
 
 The tree of life in the garden of Eden was made 
 to grow out of the ground. 
 
 And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow 
 every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for 
 food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, 
 and the tree of knowledge of good and evil_—GENESIS 
 
 2570. 
 
 But there is a Tree of Life which is in the midst 
 of the Paradise of God. 
 
 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith 
 unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I 
 give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of 
 the paradise of God.—REVELATION 2: 7. 
 
 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, 
 the first and the last. 
 
 Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they 
 may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in 
 through the gates into the city, —REVELATION 22: 13, 
 
 I4. 
 
 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the 
 life; no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.— 
 JOHN 14: 6. 
 
180 THE BIBLE AND THE JEWS 
 
 JESUS MADE A WILL 
 
 Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, made 
 a will. It is recorded in the seventeenth chapter of 
 the Gospel according to John: 
 
 Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me, 
 be with me where I am; that they may behold my 
 glory, which thou hast given me; for thou lovedst me 
 before the foundation of the world—JOHN 17: 24. 
 
 Neither pray I for these alone, but for them also which 
 shall believe on me through their word; 
 
 That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, 
 and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that 
 the world may believe that thou hast sent me. 
 
 And the glory which thou gavest mel have given them; 
 that they may be one, even as we are oneé.—JOHN 
 170 20020. 0237 
 
 All Israel is witness to this will. It was finished 
 on the Cross of Calvary. 
 
 Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant 
 whom I have chosen; that ye may know and believe 
 me and understand that I am he, before me there was 
 no God formed, neither shall there be after me. 
 
 I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no 
 Saviour.—ISAIAH 43: 10, II, 
 
 This ought to persuade those who believe Scrip- 
 ture and yet deny that Jesus Christ and God are 
 One, since it proclaims that there was no God be- 
 fore Him and shall be none after Him, and no other 
 Saviour than Him. 
 
CONCLUSION 181 
 
 Israel is given by promise; they may inherit by 
 will—if they believe. Shall they continue to dis- 
 believe? 
 
 Now cheerful to the house of prayer, 
 Your early footsteps bend; 
 
 The Saviour will Himself be there, 
 Your Advocate and Friend, 
 
 Once by the law your hopes were slain, 
 But now in Christ they live again. 
 
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