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TUIE UNKNOWN LIFE. OF JESUS CHRIST.
" Just so man must wait for the great favor which God will accord-him in honoring him with a decision."
" But alas for you, opponents of men! if it is not the favor but the wrath of Divinity that you await; Woc unto you if you wait for llim to show Ilis power by miracics!"
-10"For it is not the idols which llc shall destroy in His wrath, but those who have crected them; their hearts shall be a prey to an eternal firc and their lacerated bodics will be given to satisfy the appetite of wild leasts,"
"God will expel the contaminated animals from Ilis flocks but He will take back to Himself those who were misled by having misunderstood thc celestial spark which dwelt in them."
-12Sceing the powerlessness of their priests these peoplc belicvcd in the teachings of Issa and adopted his faith and in fear of the anger of the Divinity broke their idols in picces; secing this the priests Aed to escape the popular vengeance.
-13And Issa taught the heathen not to try to see the Eternal Spirit with their own eyes, but rather to feel it with their hcart and by a soul truly pure render themselves worthy of His favors,
-14He said to them: "Not only inust. you desist from making huinan sacrifices, but in general from sacrificing any animal to which life has been given, for all that has been crcated is for the benefit of man."
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