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the Hell-fire. The "Revelation of Baruch" and that of
Ezra - the Fourth Book of Esdras in the Vulgate - speak
of the appearance of "the Son of Man" who will establish
the powerful Kingdom of Peace upon the ruins of the
Roman Empire. All these Apocryphal Revelations show
the state of the Jewish mind about the coming of the last
great Deliverer whom they surname "the Son of Man" and
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"the Messiah." Jesus could not be unaware of and un-
familiar with this literature and this ardent expectation of
his people. He could not assume either of those two titles
to himself in the sense which the Sanhedrin - that Supreme
Tribunal of Jerusalem - and Judaism attached to them; for
he was not "the Son of Man" and "the Messiah," because
Ezra - the Fourth Book of Esdras in the Vulgate - speak
of the appearance of "the Son of Man" who will establish
the powerful Kingdom of Peace upon the ruins of the
Roman Empire. All these Apocryphal Revelations show
the state of the Jewish mind about the coming of the last
great Deliverer whom they surname "the Son of Man" and
122
"the Messiah." Jesus could not be unaware of and un-
familiar with this literature and this ardent expectation of
his people. He could not assume either of those two titles
to himself in the sense which the Sanhedrin - that Supreme
Tribunal of Jerusalem - and Judaism attached to them; for
he was not "the Son of Man" and "the Messiah," because