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the "least" himself, or the "least" among the baptized Chris-
tians? It cannot be himself, because in his time that Kingdom
was not yet established on earth; if it is, then he could not
be the "least" in it since he was its founder. The Churches -
85
rather each Church, orthodox or heterodox, from its own
peculiar point of view - have discovered a very abstruse or
a very absurd solution for this problem; and that solution
is that the "]east" Christian washed with the blood of Jesus
- either through the Sacrament of Baptism, according to
the belief of the Sacerdotalists, or through the regeneration
of some kind, according to the superstition of the Evangeli-
cals - becomes "greater" than the Baptist and all the army
tians? It cannot be himself, because in his time that Kingdom
was not yet established on earth; if it is, then he could not
be the "least" in it since he was its founder. The Churches -
85
rather each Church, orthodox or heterodox, from its own
peculiar point of view - have discovered a very abstruse or
a very absurd solution for this problem; and that solution
is that the "]east" Christian washed with the blood of Jesus
- either through the Sacrament of Baptism, according to
the belief of the Sacerdotalists, or through the regeneration
of some kind, according to the superstition of the Evangeli-
cals - becomes "greater" than the Baptist and all the army