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contradictions, with a prohibition against loving them, with the command to
worship God only, and to love Him only, which is the same thing, and,
finally, that the Messiah came not for them; whereas those who therein seek
God find Him, without any contradiction, with the command to love Him only,
and that the Messiah came in the time foretold, to give them the blessings
which they ask.
Thus the Jews had miracles and prophecies, which they saw fulfilled, and the
teaching of their law was to worship and love God only; it was also
perpetual. Thus it had all the marks of the true religion; and so it was.
But the Jewish teaching must be distinguished from the teaching of the
Jewish law. Now the Jewish teaching was not true, although it had miracles
and prophecy and perpetuity, because it had not this other point of
worshipping and loving God only.
676. The veil, which is upon these books for the Jews, is there also for
evil Christians and for all who do not hate themselves.
But how well disposed men are to understand them and to know Jesus Christ,
when they truly hate themselves!
677. A type conveys absence and presence, pleasure and pain.
A cipher has a double meaning, one clear and one in which it is said that
the meaning is hidden.
678. Types.--A portrait conveys absence and presence, pleasure and pain. The
reality excludes absence and pain.
To know if the law and the sacrifices are a reality or a type, we must see
if the prophets, in speaking of these things, confined their view and their
thought to them, so that they saw only the