"I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil."
"Lambs took not away the sins of the world, but I am the lamb which taketh
away the sins."
"Moses hath not led you out of captivity, and made you truly free."
783.... Then Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no other enemies
but themselves; that it is their passions which keep them apart from God;
that He comes to destroy these, and give them His grace, so as to make of
them all one Holy Church; that He comes to bring back into this Church the
heathen and Jews; that He comes to destroy the idols of the former and the
superstition of the latter. To this all men are opposed, not only from the
natural opposition of lust; but, above all, the kings of the earth, as had
been foretold, join together to destroy this religion at its birth. (Proph.:
Quare fremuerunt gentes... reges terrae... adversus Christum.)[176]
All that is great on earth is united together; the learned, the wise, the
kings. The first write; the se