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THE LIFE OF SAINT ISSA. TEE BEST OF THE SONS OR MEN,
1.
The carth trembled and the heavens wept because of the great crime just committed in the land of Israel.
- 2For they have just finished torturing and executing there the great, just Issa in whom dwelt the soul of the universe,
Whio incarnated himself in it simple mortal in order to do good to men and to exterminate evil thoughts
And in order to bring back man degraded by sins to a life of peace, love and good, and to recall him to the only and indivisible Creator, whose mercy is infinitc and boundless.
This is what the merchants, who came from Israel, relate on the subject.
II.
The people of Israel lived on a very fertile land, yielding two harvests a ycar, and possessed large flocks; they excited by their sins the wrath of God,
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