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necessary they should have, to
be very like the Messiah to typify Him, and very contrary not to be
suspected witnesses.

664. Typical.--God made use of the lust of the Jews to make them minister to
Jesus Christ, who brought the remedy for their lust.

665. Charity is not a figurative precept. It is dreadful to say that Jesus
Christ, who came to take away types in order to establish the truth, came
only to establish the type of charity, in order to take away the existing
reality which was there before.

"If the light be darkness, how great is that darkness!"

666. Fascination. Somnum suum.118 Figura hujus mundi.119

The Eucharist. Comedes panem tuum.120 Panem nostrum.121

Inimici Dei terram lingent.122 Sinners lick the dust, that is to say, love
earthly pleasures.

The Old Testament contains the types of future joy, and the New contains the
means of arriving at it. The types were of joy; the means of penitence; and
nevertheless the Paschal Lamb was eaten with bitter herbs, cum
amaritudinibus.123

Singularis sum ego donec transeam.124 Jesus Christ before His death was
almost the only martyr.

667. Typical.--The expressions sword, shield. Potentissime.[125]

668. We are estranged only by departing from charity. Our prayers and our
virtues are abominable before God, if they are not the prayers and the
virtues of Jesus Christ. And our sins will never be the object of mercy, but
of the justice of God, if they are not Jesus Christ. He has adopted our
sins, and has us into union, for virtues are His own, and sins are foreign
to Him; while virtues are foreign to us, and our sins are our own.

Let us change the rule which we have hitherto chosen for judging what is
good. We had our own will as our rule. Let us now take the will of God; all
that He wills is good and right to us, all that He does not will is bad.

All that God does not permit is forbidden. Sins are forbidden by the general
declaration that God has ma