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how complete is the analogy and how the economy of God
concerning His dealings with man is carried on with absolute
uniformity and order. The Mispha is the filter where all the
data and persons are filtered and strained by the Musaphphi
(Hebrew, Mosappi) as by a colander (for such is the mean-
ing of the word); so that the genuine is distinguished and
separated from the false, and the pure from the impure; yet
centuries succeed each other, myriads of Prophets come and
go, still the Mustapha, the Elected One, does not appear.
Then comes the Holy Jesus; but he is rejected and persecuted,
because there existed no longer in Israel that official Mispha
which would have recognized and announced him as a true
Messenger of God who was sent to bear witness to the
Mustapha that was the Last Prophet to follow him. The
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concerning His dealings with man is carried on with absolute
uniformity and order. The Mispha is the filter where all the
data and persons are filtered and strained by the Musaphphi
(Hebrew, Mosappi) as by a colander (for such is the mean-
ing of the word); so that the genuine is distinguished and
separated from the false, and the pure from the impure; yet
centuries succeed each other, myriads of Prophets come and
go, still the Mustapha, the Elected One, does not appear.
Then comes the Holy Jesus; but he is rejected and persecuted,
because there existed no longer in Israel that official Mispha
which would have recognized and announced him as a true
Messenger of God who was sent to bear witness to the
Mustapha that was the Last Prophet to follow him. The
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