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a forerunner would go before Him.

736. Transfixerunt.[142] Zech. 12:10.

That a deliverer should come, who would crush the demon's head, and free His
people from their sins, ex omnibus iniquitatibus;[143] that there should be
a New Covenant, which would be eternal; that there should be another
priesthood after the order of Melchisedek, and it should be eternal; that
the Christ should be glorious, mighty, strong, and yet so poor that He would
not be recognised, nor taken for what He is, but rejected and slain; that
His people who denied Him should no longer be His people; that the idolaters
should receive Him, and take refuge in Him; that He should leave Zion to
reign in the centre of idolatry; that nevertheless the Jews should continue
for ever; that He should be of Judah, and when there should be no longer a
king.

                     SECTION XII: PROOFS OF JESUS CHRIST

737. Therefore I reject all other religions. In that way I find an answer to
all objections. It is right that a God so pure should only reveal Himself to
those whose hearts are purified. Hence this religion is lovable to me, and I
find it now sufficiently justified by so divine a morality. But I find more
in it.

I find it convincing that, since the memory of man has lasted, it was
constantly announced to men that they were universally corrupt, but that a
Redeemer should come; that it is not one man who said it, but innumerable
men, and a whole nation expressly made for the purpose and prophesying for
four thousand years. This is a nation which is more ancient than every other
nation. Their books, scattered abroad, are four thousand years old.

The more I examine them, the more truths I find in them: an entire nation
foretell Him before His advent, and an entire nation worship Him after His
advent; what has preceded and what has