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This was one of their most insistent objections based upon ancestral
interpretation and teaching. In reality His Holiness Christ was glorified
with an eternal sovereignty and everlasting dominion, spiritual and not
temporal. His throne and kingdom were established in human hearts where he
reigns with power and authority without end. Notwithstanding the
fulfillment of all the prophetic signs in His Holiness, the Jews denied
him and entered the period of their deprivation because of their
allegiance to imitations and ancestral forms.

Among other objections, they said, "We are promised through the tongue of
the prophets that His Holiness Christ at the time of his coming would
proclaim the law of the torah whereas now we see this person abrogating
the commands of the pentateuch, disturbing our blessed sabbath and
abolishing the law of divorce. He has left nothing of the ancient law of
Moses, therefore he is the enemy of Moses." In reality His Holiness Christ
proclaimed and completed the law of Moses. He was the very helper and
assister of Moses. He spread the book of Moses throughout the world and
established anew the fundamentals of the law revealed by him. He abolished
certain unimportant laws and forms which were no longer compatible with
the exigencies of the time, such as divorce and plurality of wives. The
Jews did not comprehend this, and the cause of their ignorance was blind
and tenacious adherence to imitations of ancient forms and teachings;
therefore they finally sentenced His Holiness to death.

They likewise said, "Through the tongues of the prophets it was announced
that during the time of Christ's appearance the justice of God would
prevail throughout the world, tyranny and oppression would be unknown,
justice would even extend to the animal kingdom, ferocious beasts would
associate in gentleness and peace, the wolf and the lamb would drink from
the same spring, the lion and the deer meet in the same meadow, the eagle
and quail dwell together in the same nest; but instead of this, we see
that during the time of this supposed Christ the Romans have conquered
Palestine and are ruling it with extreme tyranny, justice is nowhere
apparent and signs of peace in the kingdom are conspicuously absent."
These statements and attitudes of the Jews were inherited from their
fathers; blind allegiance to literal expectations which did not come to
pass during the time of Jesus Christ. The real purport of these propheti