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exist in spite of their misery.

641. They are visibly a people expressly created to serve as a witness to
the Messiah (Isaiah 43:9; 44:8). They keep the books, and love them, and do
not understand them. And all this was foretold; that God's judgments are
entrusted to them, but as a sealed book.

                             SECTION X: TYPOLOGY

642. Proof of the two Testaments at once.--To prove the two at one stroke,
we need only see if the prophecies in one are fulfilled in the other. To
examine the prophecies, we must understand them. For if we believe they have
only one meaning, it is certain that the Messiah has not come; but if they
have two meanings, it is certain that He has come in Jesus Christ.

The whole problem then is to know if they have two meanings.

That the Scripture has two meanings, which Jesus Christ and the Apostles
have given, is shown by the following proofs:

1. Proof by Scripture itself.

2. Proof by the Rabbis. Moses Maimonides says that it has two aspects and
that the prophets have prophesied Jesus Christ only.

3. Proof by the Kabbala.

4. Proof by the mystical interpretation which the Rabbis themselves give to
Scripture.

5. Proof by the principles of the Rabbis, that there are two meanings; that
there are two advents of the Messiah, a glorious and an humiliating one,
according to their desert; that the prophets have prophesied of the Messiah
only--the Law is not eternal, but must change at the coming of the
Messiah--that then they shall no more remember the Red Sea; that the Jews
and the Gentiles shall be mingled.

6. Proof by the key which Jesus Christ and the Apostles give us.

643. Isaiah 51. The Red Sea an image of the Redemption. Ut sciatis quod
filius hominis habet potestatem remittendi peccata... tibi dico: Surge.116
God, wishing to show that He could form a people holy with an invisible
holiness, and fill them