Key of Knowledge

SR No.: 006702
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: ZZZ Unknown
Publication Year: 1919
Total Pages: 1204
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 25 MB

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to Heaven without individual exertion or labour. They were thus quite content to be in Jesus' company, for the sake of the miracles he wrought, and felt no interest in disputing, or comprehending, his claim to the sonship of God. It has always been the case with the illiterate masses that they ask not for the how or the why of religion, but for a sign, and when they are shown something out of the common they blindly tender their homage. On the other hand, the educated classes have tied themselves down to the letter of the Law as it was handed down to them from their ancestors, and decline to consider it in any other light. It is also customary with mankind to regard all the dead ancestors as infallible, and so great is the prejudice against innovation and reform that we readily lay violent hands on the stranger who points out our errors. We can now understand why Jesus was loved by the publicans and sinners, but despised and hated by the Pharisees and Doctors of Law. The former found in him a friend, a comforter, a god, who could heal their infirmities and provide them with material for wonderment and adoration, while the latter saw in him only a breaker of laws and a destroyer of the traditions which they had been fondly cherishing in their hearts. One of these fondly-cherished traditions consisted in the observance of the Sabbath, which was regarded as a meritorious deed. The point of merit had, however, been lost sight of long before the advent of Jesus, and from being an occasion for spiritual rest, the Sabbath had come to be observed as a day for physical idleness. As Jesus did not conform to their mode of its observance, the Jews felt angry with him, and asked him
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REDEMPTION.