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Sages, like Plato
and Socrates, have not been able to persuade them.
770. After many persons had gone before, Jesus Christ at last came to say:
"Here am I, and this is the time. That which the prophets have said was to
come in the fullness of time, I tell you my apostles will do. The Jews shall
be cast out. Jerusalem shall be soon destroyed. And the heathen shall enter
into the knowledge of God. My apostles shall do this after you have slain
the heir of the vineyard."
Then the apostles said to the Jews: "You shall be accursed," (Celsus laughed
at it); and to the heathen, "You shall enter into the knowledge of God." And
this then came to pass.
771. Jesus Christ came to blind those who saw clearly, and to give sight to
the blind; to heal the sick, and leave the healthy to die; to call to
repentance, and to justify sinners, and to leave the righteous in their
sins; to fill the needy, and leave the rich empty.
772. Holiness.--Effundam spiritum meum.[155] All nations were in unbelief
and lust. The whole world now became fervent with love. Princes abandoned
their pomp; maidens suffered martyrdom. Whence came this influence? The
Messiah was come. These were the effect and sig
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