Re: I Now Pronounce You Chuck (May) and Larry (Mike McDonnell)

them and distinguished them from all other
nations, without allowing them to intermingle; that, when they were
languishing in Egypt, He brought them out with all these great signs in
their favour; that He fed them with manna in the desert, and led them into a
very rich land; that He gave them kings and a well-built temple, in order to
offer up beasts before Him, by the shedding of whose blood they should be
purified; and that, at last, He was to send them the Messiah to make them
masters of all the world, and foretold the time of His coming.

The world having grown old in these carnal errors, Jesus Christ came at the
time foretold, but not with the expected glory; and thus men did not think
it was He. After His death, Saint Paul came to teach men that all these
things had happened in allegory; that the kingdom of God did not consist in
the flesh, but in the spirit; that the enemies of men were not the
Babylonians, but the passions; that God delighted not in temples made with
hands, but in a pure and contrite heart;