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"Shalom" and make Jerusalem with its temple more glorious
than before (Hag. ii. 8) - is to confess the absolute failure
of the whole enterprise.
Nevertheless one thing is as true as two and two make
four - that the whole project, according to the extravagant
view of the Christians, proves a total failure. For, from
whatever point of view we examine the interpretations of the
Churches, the failure appears to be obvious. Instead of
receiving his prince in Jerusalem at the Gate of the Temple
clad in diadem and purple, amidst the frantic acclamations
of the Jews, the precursor receives him, naked like himself,
in the middle of the River Jordan; and then to introduce him,
after immersing or plunging his master into the water, to the
crowds as "behold, this is the Messiah!" or "this is the Son
of God!" or elsewhere "behold the Lamb of God!" would
than before (Hag. ii. 8) - is to confess the absolute failure
of the whole enterprise.
Nevertheless one thing is as true as two and two make
four - that the whole project, according to the extravagant
view of the Christians, proves a total failure. For, from
whatever point of view we examine the interpretations of the
Churches, the failure appears to be obvious. Instead of
receiving his prince in Jerusalem at the Gate of the Temple
clad in diadem and purple, amidst the frantic acclamations
of the Jews, the precursor receives him, naked like himself,
in the middle of the River Jordan; and then to introduce him,
after immersing or plunging his master into the water, to the
crowds as "behold, this is the Messiah!" or "this is the Son
of God!" or elsewhere "behold the Lamb of God!" would