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 second condemn; the last kill. And
notwithstanding all these oppositions, these men, simple and weak, resist
all these powers, subdue even these kings, these learned men and these
sages, and remove idolatry from all the earth. And all this is done by the
power which had foretold it.
784. Jesus Christ would not have the testimony of devils, nor of those who
were not called, but of God and John the Baptist.
785. I consider Jesus Christ in all persons and in ourselves: Jesus Christ
as a Father in His Father, Jesus Christ as a Brother in His Brethren,