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lofty personage, the office of the "Son of Man." To say:
"The Son of Man came to serve and not to be served," (l) or
"The Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of the
Chief Priests and the Scribes" (2) or "The Son of Man came
eating and drinking [wine]" with the sinners and the pub-
licans, (3) and at the same time to confess that he was a beggar
living on the charity and hospitality of others, was to insult
his nation and its nation and its holiest religious sentiments!
To boast that he was the Son of Man and had come to
save and recover the lost sheep of Israel, (4) but had to leave
this salvation to the Last Judgement, and even then to be
cast into the eternal flames, was to frustrate all the hopes
of that persecuted people, who alone in all mankind had
the honor of being the only nation that professed the faith
"The Son of Man came to serve and not to be served," (l) or
"The Son of Man shall be delivered unto the hands of the
Chief Priests and the Scribes" (2) or "The Son of Man came
eating and drinking [wine]" with the sinners and the pub-
licans, (3) and at the same time to confess that he was a beggar
living on the charity and hospitality of others, was to insult
his nation and its nation and its holiest religious sentiments!
To boast that he was the Son of Man and had come to
save and recover the lost sheep of Israel, (4) but had to leave
this salvation to the Last Judgement, and even then to be
cast into the eternal flames, was to frustrate all the hopes
of that persecuted people, who alone in all mankind had
the honor of being the only nation that professed the faith