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583-504 (670) 524-519 Symbol—The Jews are aged in the following earthly thought: God loved their ancestor Abraham, his flesh and blood and everything that came from it; God therefore multiplied them and distinguished them from all other peoples did not allow them to be confused; when they groaned in Egypt, God delivered them with all those great signs that favored them; God fed them with manna in the wilderness; God brought them to a very on a fertile land; God gave them a king and a well-built temple, where they could offer sacrifices, and by shedding their blood they might be purified; at last God would send them the Messiah, that they might become The master of the whole world, and God also foretells the time when the Messiah will come.

When the world grew old in these carnal errors, Jesus Christ came in the hour foretold, but not in the splendor that men expected; so they did not think it was he.After he died, St. Paul came out to teach people that the coming of all these things is a symbol, and that the kingdom of God is not in the flesh but in the spirit; he also said that the enemy of people is not the Babylonians, but emotions; Do not like temples made by hands, but a pure and humble heart; say that circumcision of the body is useless, but circumcision of the heart must be done; and that Moses did not give them the bread of heaven, etc. .

But God, not wanting to reveal these things to a nation unworthy of them, yet wanted to foretell them in order that they might be believed; so he foretold their hour plainly, and sometimes expressed them plainly. , but more often it is symbolized, so that those who love symbolic things can grasp them, so that those who love symbolic things can see them. Everything that does not tend toward charity is a symbol. The sole purpose of the Holy Book is charity. That which does not tend towards a single purpose is its symbol.For, since there is only one end, what does not tend to it in definite words is symbolized.

Thus God mutates in many ways the one and only commandment of love, in order to satisfy our curiosity for variety with this variety, which always leads us to the only thing we need.For only one thing is necessary, and we love variations; and God satisfies both with these variations leading to the only necessary thing. The Jews loved symbols so much, and looked forward to them so eagerly, that they misunderstood reality when it came in its foretold time and manner. The rabbis took the bride's breast as a symbol, and everything that did not signify the only goal they had, namely, earthly wealth.

And Christians even regard the Eucharist as a symbol of the glory for which they pray. 584-531 (671) 767-504 The Jew, called to subjugate nations and kings, became the slave of sin; the Christian, whose calling was to serve and be a servant, was the son of liberty. 585-683 (672) 539-502 Written for the Formalists - When St. Peter consulted with the Apostles to abolish circumcision, it involved doing something against the law of God, but they ignored the prophets at all and accepted it only in the uncircumcised holy spirit. They can conclude with greater certainty that God approves of those whom He fills with His Spirit, than that law must be obeyed.They knew that the end of the law was nothing but the Holy Spirit; and since men could easily acquire it without circumcision, circumcision was not necessary.

572, 586-530, 718 (673) 541-503  Eac secundum exemplar quod tibi ostensum est in monte. [Follow the example charged to you on the mount. 〕Press, "Mountain" is Mount Sinai.Chapter 25, verse 40: "According to the pattern that was shown to you on the mountain". The Jewish religion is shaped by its Messianic truth; the Messianic truth is known by the Jewish religion which it symbolizes. With the Jews, truth is only symbolized; in heaven, it is revealed. In the Church it is veiled and recognized in its relation to the symbol. Symbols are created from truths, and truths are known from symbols.

St. Paul himself said that people were not allowed to marry, and he himself spoke to the Corinthians about it in a way that became a mousetrap.For if a prophet said one thing, and St. Paul later said another, we would blame him. 572(a)-481(674)538-521 Symbolic - you "do all things as your protector directed you on the mount".On this basis St. Paul says that the Jews have pictured the heavenly things. 563-519 (675) 481-523 . . . yet this covenant, made to blind some and enlighten others, marks in those whom it blinds truths that should be known to others.For the apparent blessings they received from God were so great and so divine that it seemed certain that he could bestow upon them invisible things and a Messiah.

For nature is the shadow of grace, and the miracles seen are shadows of the invisible. Ut sciatis... tibi dico: Surge. [that you may know... I command you to arise].See Mark 2:5-12. See also paragraph 643 of this book. Isaiah speaks of redemption as the way in the Red Sea. So God showed that He was able to save by fleeing from Egypt, by fleeing from the sea, by defeating many kings, by manna, by the whole genealogy of Abraham, and by sending food down from heaven, etc.; Thus the hostile peoples were the symbols and manifestations of the Messiah himself whom they did not know, etc. Thus at last he taught us that all these things are but symbols, and what is "true liberty," "true Israelite," "true circumcision," "true bread from heaven," etc. Wait.

It is in these promises that each will discover what is within him, whether of earthly or spiritual good, God or creation; Those who seek creations within will find them here, but will encounter many contradictions, prohibitions not to love them, commandments to worship only God and love only God (it's all just one thing) , and finally there is that the Messiah is by no means to come for them; on the contrary, those who seek God in it will find God without any contradiction, and there is also the teaching that only love him, And a Messiah to come at the prophesied time to bestow upon them the blessings they demanded.

Thus the Jews had miracles and prophecies which they saw fulfilled; and the doctrine of their law was only to worship and love God; and it was eternal.Thus it has all the hallmarks of true religion; it is true religion.We must, however, distinguish the doctrine of the Jews from the doctrine of the Jewish law.The Jewish doctrine is not true, though it has miracles, prophecies, and perpetuity, because it does not have the other point of worshiping and loving only God. 564-514 (676) 482-524 The veil set up in these books for the Jews is also set up for bad Christians, and for all who do not hate themselves.

But how easily men understand them and know Jesus Christ when they really hate themselves! 565-499 (677) 209-526 Symbols have what is and what is not, what is joyful and what is not. —Symbols have a double meaning: one is manifest, the other is said to have a hidden meaning. 566-494 (678) 472-528 Symbols—a picture has what is and what is not, what is joyful and what is not.Reality rules out the non-appearing and the unhappy. In order to know whether laws and sacrifices are real or symbols, it is necessary to see whether the prophets, when they spoke of these things, rested their views and their thoughts on them, so that what they saw in them was Is it just that ancient covenant, or do they see something else in it too, and the covenant is nothing but a picture of them; for in a picture we see what is symbolized things.On this point we need only examine how they speak of them. When they say it will be eternal, do they mean the covenant, (about the covenant, they say it's changeable), or sacrifice, etc.? The symbol has two meanings.When we come across an important word and find that it has a clear meaning, but its meaning is said to be veiled and obscure, it is concealed, so that we are blind to the word, speaking instead of speaking. When puzzled; then what else can we imagine except that it is a symbol with a double meaning?This is especially true when we find a clear opposite in its literal sense.The prophets had plainly said that Israel would be forever loved by God, and that the laws would be eternal; but they had also said that men would not understand their meaning, and that it was veiled. How, then, should we honor those who have revealed to us the signs and taught us the hidden meanings!Especially when the principles they invoke for it are quite natural and clear.This is what Jesus Christ and the apostles did.They opened the seal, he tore off the veil and revealed the spirit.For this reason they teach us that man's great enemy is his own passions; that the Redeemer is spiritual, and so is his Reign; that he shall come twice, once tragic, to humiliate the proud, Another time it was glorious, to uplift the humble; Jesus Christ was both God and man. 567-487 (679) 914-529 Symbolism - Jesus Christ opened their spirits to understand the Holy Book. Here are the two great revelations: (1) All things appeared to them in symbols: vere IsraOlitac, vere liberi, [True Israelite, True Freedom].The real bread from heaven; (2) a God who was humiliated enough to go to the cross: Christ had to suffer to enter into his glory, "he will conquer death by his own death".Twice coming. 568-501 (680) 249-530 Symbols—once people reveal the secret, it is impossible for them to lose sight of it.Let's just read the Old Testament in this light: let's go.See if the sacrifice was real, if Abraham's paternity was the real reason for God's favor, and if the promised land was the real resting place.Neither; they are therefore symbols.Let us also look at all prescribed ceremonies, all that are not precepts of charity; and we shall see that they too are symbols. Therefore, all sacrifices and ceremonies are symbols, otherwise they are all nonsense.But these things are too clear and noble to be judged as nonsense. It should be known whether the prophets limited their views to the Old Testament, or saw something else in it as well. 568(a)-483(681)496-534 Symbolic – the key to symbols. Veri adoratores. —— Ecce agnus Dei qui tollit peccata mundi. [This is the Lamb of God, who will take away the sins of the world. ] John Chapter 1, Verse 29: "Behold! the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world." 568(b)-516(682)747-535 "I" Chapter 1 Section 21.Good to Bad, and God's Revenge, Chapter 10, verse 1, Chapter 26, verse 20, Chapter 28, verse 1. —— Miracles: Chapter 33, Section 9, Chapter 40, Section 17, Chapter 41, Section 26, Chapter 43, Section 13: "I" Chapter 44, Sections 20-24, Chapter 54, Section 8, Chapter 63, Sections 12-17, Chapter 66, Section 17. "Jesus" Chapter 2, Section 35; Chapter 4, Section 22-24; Chapter 5, Section 4, Section 29-31; Chapter 6, Section 16. Chapter 11, verse 21, Chapter 15, verse 12, Chapter 17, verse 9: Parvum est cor omnium etincrustabile, quis cognoscet illud?That is to say, who can know all the evil in it? Because people already know that it is for evil and evil. Ego Dominus, etc. - Chapter 7, verse 14:  Eaciam domui huic, etc.Have faith in outward sacraments,--Chapter 7, verse 22: Quia non sum locutus, etc.The essential thing is not an outward sacrament, chap. 11:13. Secundum numerum, etc.Mass Doctrine, Chapter 23, verses 15-17. 569-502 (683) 672-532 Symbols—words kill; everything comes in symbols.This is the symbol St. Paul gave us.Christ had to suffer.A humiliated God.Circumcision of the heart, true fasting, true sacrifice, true temple. The prophets have pointed out that all this must be spiritual. Not the flesh that perishes, but the flesh that does not perish. "You will be truly free".Other liberties are thus no more than symbols of liberty. "I am the true bread from heaven". 558-491 (684) 474-537 Contradiction—We can only form a beautiful constitution if we harmonize all the opposites in ourselves; without harmonizing these opposites, we cannot pursue a series of harmonized qualities.To understand the meaning of a writer, we must reconcile all opposing passages. Therefore, to understand the Holy Book there must be a meaning in which all the opposing passages are reconciled.It is not enough to have a meaning that can accommodate many coordinating passages; there must be a meaning that can coordinate and even contradict each section. Every writer has a meaning which reconciles all opposing passages, otherwise he would have no meaning at all.We cannot say that the Holy Books and the Prophets are meaningless; indeed they are of great significance. Therefore, we must find a meaning that can reconcile all these opposites. The real meaning, then, is never the Jewish meaning; but all contradictions are reconciled in Jesus Christ. The Jews did not know how to reconcile Hosea's prophecy of kingship and its interruption with Jacob's prophecy. If we take Law, Sacrifice, and Kingdom as real, we cannot reconcile all the chapters.They must, therefore, be nothing but symbols.We cannot even reconcile the chapters of an author, or the chapters of the same book, or sometimes the verses and paragraphs of the same chapter, although they sufficiently indicate what a writer means; Chapter 20 of the book says that we will live in God's commandments and we will not live in them. 559-493 (685) 611-538 Symbol—If law and sacrifice be truth, it must please God and never displease him.If they are symbols, they must both please and displease. But in all the Holy Books, they are both delightful and displeasing.It says: the law will be changed, the sacrifice will be changed, they will have no law, no king, and no sacrifice, a new covenant will be made, the law will be renewed, the commandments they have accepted are not good, their sacrifices Disgusting, God never asked for this. On the contrary, it says: the law shall endure forever, the covenant shall be eternal, the sacrifice shall be eternal, and the wat shall never leave them, for it will never leave until the eternal king comes Their. Do all these chapters mean it's real?no.But do these mean that it is a symbol?Nor is it; rather it means that it is either real or symbolic.But the preceding chapters, by excluding the real, show that it is only a symbol. All these passages taken together cannot speak of the truth, all of them can speak of the symbol; therefore, they do not speak of the truth but of the symbol. Agnus occisus est ab origine mundi [lamb slain from creation]. "Revelation" Chapter 13, verse 8: "All who dwell on the earth whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Lamb's book of life that was slain, shall worship him".Judge of sacrificers. 559(a)-497(686) 480-539 Contrast: Watt until the time of the Messiah - there is no king and no sovereign. Eternal law, -- was changed. Eternal covenant,—new covenant. Good laws, --bad commandments. "Isaiah". 555-506 (687) 473-540 Symbolism - While God's word (which is true) is literally false, it is spiritually true. Sede a dextris meis, [sitting on my right. ] "Psalm" 110, verse 1: "The LORD said to my Lord, sit at my right hand".This is literally false, so it is spiritually true. This expression speaks of God in a human way; and it means nothing other than man's intention to seat him at his right hand, which God also has; and so it is God's A sign of intentions, not of the manner in which he carries out his intentions. Therefore, when someone says: "God accepts the fragrance of your spice, he will repay you with a rich land"; that is to say, a person who likes your spice has the kind Intent, God has the same for you; for you have the same intention for [him] that one has for the one who gave himself the spice. Therefore, iratus est, [he was angry]. "A jealous God," etc.For the things of God are ineffable, they cannot be said otherwise; the Church still uses them today: Quia con fortavit seras, [because he strengthened the bars]. Psalm 147, verse 13: "For he has strengthened your bars". etc. It is impermissible to ascribe to the Holy Book a meaning for which it has not been revealed to us.So to say that the closed mem in Isaiah refers to 600 is something that has not been shown.Some people may say that the words tsade and he deeicientes at the end refer to mystery.But it is impermissible to say so, and especially not to say that this is the way of the Philosopher's Stone.Rather we say that the literal sense is not the real sense, because the Prophets themselves have said so. 554-515 (688) 483-541 I am not saying that the word mem is mysterious. 492-547 (689) 476-545 Moses (Deuteronomy 30) promised that God would circumcise their hearts so they could love him. 493-538 (690) 475-546 A line of David's or Moses', such as "God will circumcise their hearts," will enable a man to judge their spirits.Even if everything else is vague enough to make one doubt whether they are philosophers or Christians; but a last sentence of this nature will determine everything else, just as a single sentence by Epictetus Asserting everything else is the opposite.The ambiguity has continued to this day, but it will never happen again in the future. 558(a)-510(691)503-467 There are two persons who are both telling stupid stories, but one has a double meaning as understood by Jewish mysticism, and the other has only one meaning; Talking about it this way, he will judge them the same.But if subsequently in other discourses one man speaks of angels, and the other always speaks of commonplace things, he will judge that it is the one who speaks of the mystical, and not the latter: One has amply shown that he cannot be so stupid and can be mystical; the other cannot be mystical and can be stupid. The Old Testament is a set of signs. 570-503 (692) 484-466 Some do see that men have no enemy but lust, which turns them from God, not God from them; and that there is nothing good but God, other than some fertile ground.Let [them be satisfied] by those who believe that the beauty of man consists only in the flesh, and that the evil consists only in keeping them from sensual pleasures. Be in it and let them [die in] it.But those who seek God with all their hearts, they are troubled only by being deprived of it, they desire nothing but to gain God, and make enemies only of those who turn them away from God, and they see themselves deprived of it. Surrounded and ruled by enemies; let them be comforted, I will announce to them a happy tidings: there is a liberator for them, I will make them see him, I will show them that there is a God exists for them; I will not let others see him.I would show them that a Messiah has been promised who will deliver them from their enemies; and that a Messiah has come who will deliver them from the hands of injustice, not from their enemies. When David prophesied that the Messiah would deliver his people from their enemies, we could believe that they were Egyptians in the flesh, but then I can't show that the prophecy was fulfilled.Yet we may well believe that it is injustice, since in fact the Egyptians are not the enemy, injustice is the enemy.The term enemy is therefore ambiguous.Yet if he had said elsewhere, as it was necessary, that he would deliver his people from their sins, as Isaiah and others did; then the ambiguity would be removed, and the enemy The two meanings of "injustice" can be reduced to the one meaning of injustice.For if there are sins in his mind, he may well call them enemies; but if he thinks of enemies, he cannot call them injustice. However, both Moses and David and Isaiah use the same phrase.Who is to say, then, that they do not have the same meaning, and that David's meaning--when he speaks of enemies, it is plainly speaking of injustice--is not the same [that sense] that Moses had when he spoke of enemies. the same? Daniel (chap. 9) prayed for the deliverance of the people from captivity by their enemies, yet he had sin in mind; and to show this, he says that Gabriel came and told him that he had Be heard, and just wait seventy weeks, then the whole people will be freed from injustice, crime will end, and the liberator of the holy will bring eternal justice-not the justice of the law, but eternal justice. Gabriel (Gabriel) is the archangel, see "Daniel" chapter 9 verses 20-22.