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God and John the Baptist.

785. I consider Jesus Christ in all persons and in ourselves: Jesus Christ
as a Father in His Father, Jesus Christ as a Brother in His Brethren, Jesus
Christ as poor in the poor, Jesus Christ as rich in the rich, Jesus Christ
as Doctor and Priest in priests, Jesus Christ as Sovereign in princes, etc.
For by His glory He is all that is great, being God; and by His mortal life
He is all that is poor and abject. Therefore He has taken this unhappy
condition, so that He could be in all persons and the model of all
conditions.

786. Jesus Christ is an obscurity (according to what the world calls
obscurity), such that historians, writing only of important matters of
states, have hardly noticed Him.

787. On the fact that neither Josephus, nor Tacitus, nor other historians
have spoken of Jesus Christ.--So far is this from telling against
Christianity that, on the contrary, it tells for it. For it is certain that
Jesus Christ has existed; that His religion has made a great talk; and that
these persons were not ignorant of it. Thus it is plain that they purposely
concealed it, or that, if they did speak of it, their account has been
suppressed or changed.

788. "I have reserved me seven thousand." I love the worshippers unknown to
the world and to the very prophets.

789. As Jesus Christ remained unknown among men, so His truth remains among
common opinions without external difference. Thus the Eucharist among
ordinary bread.

790. Jesus would not be slain without the forms of justice; for it is far
more ignominious to die by justice than by an unjust sedition.

791. The false justice of Pilate only serves to make Jesus Christ suffer;
for he causes Him to be scourged by his false justice, and afterwards puts
Him to death. It would have been better to have put Him to death at once.
Thus it is with the falsely just. They do good and evil works to please the
world, and to show that they are not