Chapter 13 Title IX-2

775-550 (617) 694-732 Perpetuity—Let us consider that the expectation and worship of the Messiah have been uninterrupted since the beginning of the world; and we also find it said that God had revealed to them that a Savior would be born Saved his people; and then came Abraham, who said that he had received a revelation, that from one of his sons the Messiah would be born; and Jacob declared that of his twelve children, the Messiah Yah would be born of Judah; and then Moses and the prophets came and announced when and how the Messiah would come; continue so far, but another law will continue for eternity; and therefore their law, or their law but to be the law of their promised Messiah, will exist forever in the earth; and in fact It is eternal; and in the midst of all these foretold circumstances came at last Jesus Christ.That's really admirable.

406-556 (618) 770-736 This is a fact.While all the philosophers split into sects, people found in one corner of the world the oldest race in the world declaring that the whole world is wrong, that God has revealed the truth to them, that it will exist forever in the universe. on the ground.In fact, all other sects have ceased to exist, but this religion has survived for four thousand years. They declared that, from their forefathers, man had fallen from communion with God, and was wholly separated from him, from whom he had promised his redemption; and that this doctrine would perpetuate the earth forever; and that they The laws of the 1600s had two meanings; and for sixteen hundred years they had men whom they believed to be prophets, who foretold to them the time and the way; It was proclaimed everywhere; and Jesus Christ came in the manner and time foretold; and the Jews thereafter were scattered everywhere, cursed, and yet still existed.

407-555 (619) 732-766 I see that Christianity is built on a prior religion, and that's what I see. I will not speak here of the miracles of Moses, of Jesus Christ, and of the apostles, because they may seem unconvincing at first sight, and because I want only to present here the certainty and impossibility of being such a Christian religion. All grounds for suspicion by whoever it is.There is no doubt that in many parts of the world we see a special people set apart from all other peoples in the world, and they are called the Jewish people. I also see that in many parts of the world and in all ages there are a great number of religions, yet they have neither morals to please me nor proofs to break my heart; Religion, and that of China, and that of the ancient Romans, and that of the Egyptians, on the sole ground that each bears neither more signs of truth than the other, nor anything which necessarily determines our things, it is impossible for reason to prefer one kind over another.

Yet, thus considering this capricious variety of customs and beliefs in different ages, I find that in one corner of the world there is a peculiar people, which are distinguished from all other peoples on the face of the earth, and They are the oldest of all peoples, and their history is many centuries earlier than the oldest history of all ours. And then I found that great and numerous people, born of a single man, who worshiped one God, and who acted by laws which, they said, came from the hand of God.They insisted that they were the only people in the world who had been revealed by God to his mysteries; that all human beings were corrupted and dishonored by God; The grotesque errors and continual changes of religion and custom occur among men, while they stand still in their own works; but God will not forever keep other peoples in this darkness. there is coming a liberator of all mankind; they were on earth to proclaim him to the people; and they were evidently created to be heralds and heralds of this great event, and to call all nations Join them in anticipation of the liberator.

It was a surprise to me to meet this people, and it seemed to deserve my attention.I consider that law which they profess to have from God, and I find it admirable.It is the first law of all laws, so that almost a thousand years before the Greeks even used the word law, they had accepted and obeyed it without interruption. It also seems strange to me that this first law in the world happened to be the most perfect law, so that the greatest legislators borrowed from them, as the Athenians later adopted by the Romans. The Bronze Table method is an example, and if Joseph and others had not sufficiently discussed the subject, it would be easily proved by others.

408-552 (620) 734-838 The Excellence of the Jewish People—In this inquiry the Jewish people have first attracted my attention by the multitude of admirable and unique things present among them. I saw first that it was a people composed entirely of brothers, whereas all other peoples are formed by the collection of innumerable families; men, and since being thus all of the same blood, all members of one another, [they] constitute one mighty, single nation.This is unique. This family, or nation, is one of the oldest in the sphere of human knowledge; and this I think makes it peculiarly respectable, especially in this inquiry which we are undertaking; for if in all ages God If you have ever communicated with people, then you must turn to them to obtain knowledge about this tradition.

This people is not only to be valued for its antiquity, but also unique in its longevity, which has continued from its beginnings to the present day.For the Greek and Italian, the Rasidemonian, the Athenian, the Roman nations, and others belatedly perished, whereas this nation alone survived; Hundreds of times how mighty kings have sought to destroy them,—as their historians testify, and as it is easy to infer from the natural order of things over such a long period of time,— Yet they have always been preserved (and this preservation was foretold); and that history, which lasted from their earliest times to the latest, contains in its course all our history (and their history long before our history].

The laws that govern this people are at the same time the oldest laws in the world, and the most perfect, and the only ones that are constantly maintained in one country.This is so admirably pointed out by Josephus in "Anti-Appian," and it is proved in many places by Philo the Jew, who makes it appear so ancient that even the very word law itself is Known to the oldest peoples more than a thousand years later; so that Homer, who wrote the history of so many nations, did not use this term. Its perfection is easily judged by a single reading, From it we see that it is so wise, so just, and so finely judged in all things, that the oldest legislators of Greece and Rome, who knew anything of it, borrowed from it. adopted their own principal laws; and this is seen from what they call the Twelve Tables, and other proofs given by Josephus.

But at the same time this law is the strictest and most severe of all laws so far as its religious worship is concerned; in order to bind the people to their duties, it imposes on them a thousand special and painful, and that it has been so consistently preserved through so many centuries by a people as rebellious and restless as the Jews, while all the rest of the world have changed their laws from time to time, Although they are all much simpler; this is a thing that is more than amazing. The book which contains this law, the first of all laws, is itself the oldest book in the world, and the books of Homer, Hesiod, and others, are six or seven hundred years later thing.

409-551 (621) 725-830 Genesis and the Flood were past, and God would no longer destroy the world, recreate it, or make these great signs of himself; This nation will continue until the nation which the Messiah has created by his Holy Spirit. 410-458 (622) 748-851 Genesis has begun to go away, so God provided a unique historian at that time, and appointed a whole nation as the guardian of this book, so that this history can become the most authoritative history in the world , and let everyone learn from it what is so necessary to know and can only be known from there. 529(a)-666(623)710-829

[Japheth begins the genealogy. ] Joseph folded his arms around the other, and was willing to have the younger one. 489-569 (624) 708-811 Why did Moses make people's lives so long and their generations so short? For it is not the length of time but the multitude of generations that makes things obscure.For truth changes only by changing men.Yet at the same time he places two of the most memorable events imaginable, Genesis and the Flood, so close that we can touch them. 490-573 (625) 716-812 Flash saw Lamech, and Lamech saw Adam and Jacob, and Jacob saw those who had seen Moses; thus both the Flood and Genesis are true.This is the conclusion of some who understand it well. 491-567 (626) 706-815 The longevity of the ancestors does not annihilate the history of past things, but helps to preserve them.For what makes people sometimes not learn enough about the history of their ancestors is that they almost never live with them, and that they often die before they reach a thinking age.However, when people live so long, children and grandchildren can live with their parents for a long time.They can talk to their parents for a long time.But what could they talk about other than the history of their ancestors?For to this all history is reduced, and they do not study the sciences and arts which occupy most of the conversation of everyday life today. We can also see that each nation was very careful in preserving their genealogy at that time. 524(b)-946(627)709-808 I believe Joshua was the first of God's people to bear that name, just as Jesus Christ was the last of God's people to bear that name. 422-415 (628) 753-834 The Antiquity of the Jews—How Different is One Book from Another!I am not surprised that the Greeks wrote the Iliad, nor that the Egyptians and Chinese wrote their histories. We need only see how this comes about.The historians of this fabrication were not contemporaries of the things they wrote about.Homer wrote a legend, so he narrated it, and so it was accepted, for no one doubted that Troy and Agamemnon were as non-existent as the golden apples.Nor did he intend to write a history, but merely a diversion; he was the only one who wrote it at the time, but the beauty of the work keeps things alive: Everybody reads it and everybody talks about it; everybody needs to know it, everybody recites it. Four hundred years later, the witnesses to these things are no longer alive, and no one knows by his own knowledge whether it is a myth or a history; people only learn it from their ancestors, so it may be taken as true. that's it. All history books which are not contemporary, such as those of Sybel and Trismegist, and many others which are trusted by the world, are false, and have been found to be false at a later time.But the same is not true of contemporary writers. There is a great difference between a book written by one man and made known to a nation, and a book which in itself makes a nation.We cannot doubt that the book is not as old as the people. 511(a)-572(629)724-837 Joseph covered up the shame of his nation. Moses did not hide his own shame. Quis mihi det ut omnines prophet? [Who will give us the ability to predict everything? 〕"Numbers" Chapter 11, Section 29: "May all the people of the Lord be inspired to speak." He's tired of the people. 512-549, 557 (630) 738-787 The sincerity of the Jews—since they had no more prophets, there has been Maccabees; since Jesus Christ, there has been Masura. This book will testify to you. That text is missing and final. To sincerely oppose their own honor and die for it is without precedent in the world, and without root in nature. 511-553 (631) 720-786 The sincerity of the Jews—with love and devotion they preserved a book in which Moses declared that they had been ungrateful to God all their lives, and knew that they would be even more so after his death; as a witness against them, what he [taught] them was sufficient. He declared that God was angry with them, and would at last scatter them among all the peoples of the earth; and since they had angered him by worshiping gods who were not their gods at all, he likewise called them a people who were not their gods at all. It was not the nation of his people to provoke them, and would that all his words be preserved for eternity and his books be placed in the ark of the covenant, to be forever a witness against them. Isaiah says the same thing, see chapter 30. 411(a)-564(632)723-794 On the Book of Esdras - Legend: The Book has been burned with the Temple. "The Book of Maccabees" proves its falsehood: "Jeremiah gave them the law". Legend: He recited them all.Joseph and Esdras point out that he read the book.Barron's "Ed" page 180: Nullus penitus Hebraeo rum antiquo-rum reperitur qui tradiderit libros periisse et per Esdram esse restitutos, nisi in IV Esdrae. [Nowhere in the ancient Hebrew writings is it recorded that these books were restored by Esdras after their destruction, except chapter 4 of the books of Esdras. ] Legend: He tampered with the text. Ferro said in "The Biography of Moses": Illa lingua ac character quo antiquitus scripta est lex sic permansit usque ad LXX. [The language and script in which the laws were written in antiquity survived until LXX. ] By the way, LXX is the seventy sages, referring to the Greek translation of the "Old Testament" Joseph said that when it was translated by the seventy sages, the law was in Hebrew. Under Antiochus and Vespasian, people tried to abolish these books, there were no prophets, but they couldn't.And under the rule of the Babylonians, when there was no persecution, and there were so many prophets, could they allow these books to be burned? Joseph mocked the Jews, who would not bear it. . . . Tertullian: Perinde potuit aboleeactam eam vioH lentia cataclysmi in spiritu rursus reeormare, que madmodum et Hiero-solymis Babylonia expugna ione deletetis, omni instrumentum judaicae litteraturae per Esdram constat restauratum. [Just as he was able to rebuild what had been destroyed by the flood, Esdras had various means of restoring Jewish literature after Jerusalem fell to Babylon. ] He says that Noah was likely to restore the spirit of 1 Enoch, destroyed in the Flood, just as Esdras might restore the holy book destroyed in captivity. Greek: [Since the holy book was destroyed when the people were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, (God) ... It was revealed that Esdras was to warn the Levites of all those words from the prophets and restore to the people the law from Moses. ] According to the above quotation, it comes from Eusebe (Eusebius, 264-340) "History of the Church" Chapter 8 of Volume 5.He cites this to show that it is not inconceivable that the Septuagint interpreted the Holy Book with the same consistency with which we adore it.He extracts this from the book of St. Irena. Saint-Hilaire, in his preface to the Psalms, says that Esdras composed the Psalms. This legend originated from the fourth volume and fourteenth chapter of "Book of Esdras": Deusglorieicatusest，etScripturaeveredivinaecreditae sunt，omni－buseamdemeteisdemverbiseteisdemno minibusrecitantibusabinitiousqueadeinem，utietprae sentesgentescognoscerentquoniamperinspirationemDei interpretataesuntScripturaeetnonessetmirabileDeumhoc ineisoperatum：quandoineacaptivitatepopuliquaeeactestaNabuchodonosor，corruptisscripturisetpost70annos Judaeisdescendentibusinregionemsuam，etpostdeinde temporibusArtaxercisPersarumregis，inspiravitEsdraesac erdotitribusLevipraeteritorumprophe－tarumomnesre memoraresermones，etrestituerepopuloeamlegemquae dataestperMoysen。 [God is glorious, the holy book is believed to be truly holy, and such words and titles have been used from beginning to end, so that people of all nationalities now know that the holy book is explained by God’s revelation, and there is no need to explain his Action marveled; when the people were taken captive by Nebuchadnezzar, the holy book was destroyed, and seventy years later in the land of the descendants of Judah, after Artasisius reigned in Persia, Esdras The priest repeated to the Levites all the teachings of the prophets and restored to the people the laws of Moses. 〕 411(b)-565(633)637-796 The legend against Esdras, Maccabees, book 2, chap. 2;--Josephus, Antiquities, chap. 2, verse 1.Cyrus invoked Isaiah's prophecy to deliver the people.The Jews in Babylon, under Cyrus, kept their property safe and sound, so they probably had laws too. Throughout the history of Esdras, Joseph has not said a word about this restoration. — Chapter 17, verse 27 of 2 Kings. 411-566 (634) 695-764 If the legend of Esdras is to be believed, then we must believe that the holy book is a true holy book; for the legend rests only on the authority of those who mention the authority of the Septuagint, who Point out that the holy book is holy. Therefore, if the account is true, it contains our version; if not, we can get it elsewhere.So those who want to destroy the truth of our religion based on Moses founded it by the same authority that they attacked.Therefore, according to this providence, it is eternal. 512(a)-536(635)756-763 Chronicle of Judaism. (See "Sword" for page counts). Page twenty articles.Khakadosh (200 AD) is the author of the Mishna or Voting Law or Second Law. Various annotations of "Mishna" (AD 340): One of them is "Sivra" and "Barayido". "Talmud Hilozo", "Doxidor", "Beleshi Raba" written by Esai Raba, are annotations to Mishna. "Beleshi Rabbah" and "Banakoni" are exquisite and interesting conversation records of history and theology.The same author wrote another book called La Botte. One hundred years after the completion of "Talmud Helozo" (AD 400), Aspen wrote "Babylon's Talmud", which was generally recognized by all Jews, so they must have the obligation Follow everything contained in it. The part added by Asi is called "Jimala", that is to say, the "commentary" of "Mishna". Thus the Talmud includes both the Mishna and the Jamala together. 524(a)-773(636)727-792 If not indifference: Malachi, Isaiah. Isaiah, Si volumus [if we will], etc. In quacumque die [at every time].According to Brunsweig's note: This is an explanation of the above-mentioned "if"; "if" indicates the inevitable relationship between functions, and does not mean "indifference". . 507-633 (637) 729-795 Prophecy - The wats were not interrupted by the captivity of Babylon, for their return was promised and prophesied. 509-582 (638) 735-780 Proof of Jesus Christ—Real assurance of deliverance within seventy years is no captivity.But now they were captives without any hope. God promised them that though he scattered them to the ends of the world, he would gather them together if they would be true to his law.They were very loyal to his laws and were always persecuted. 508-591 (639) 718-512 When Nebuchadnezzar removed the people, fearing that the people would believe that the wat of Judah was being taken away; he told them beforehand that they would be here for a short time, and that they would be restored. They are always comforted by the prophets, and their kings continue.But the second destruction has no promise of restoration, no prophets, no kings, no consolation, no hope; for the king's wat is forever annulled. 505-588 (640) 707-560 It is a thrilling thing, and one that deserves special attention, to see that the Jewish people have survived all these long years, and that they have been miserable.Both were necessary in order to prove Jesus Christ, whether they lived to prove him, or they were miserable because they had crucified him.Moreover, although living miserably is opposite to continuing to exist, they continue to exist despite their misery. 506-604 (641) 749-767 They are obviously a people who were intentionally created to testify to the Messiah, ("Isaiah" Chapter 43, Section 9; Chapter 44, Section 8).They keep them, they love them, they don't understand them.And all this was foretold: the judgment of God was entrusted to them, but only as a sealed book.