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| Chapter LXXII.—Passages have been removed by the Jews from Esdras and Jeremiah.
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Chapter LXXII.—Passages have been
removed by the Jews from Esdras and Jeremiah.
And I said, “I shall do as you please. From the
statements, then, which Esdras made in reference to the law of the
passover, they have taken away the following: ‘And Esdras said to
the people, This passover is our Saviour and our refuge. And if you have
understood, and your heart has taken it in, that we shall humble Him on a
standard, and2218
thereafter hope in Him, then this
place shall not be forsaken for ever, says the God of hosts. But if you
will not believe Him, and will not listen to His declaration, you shall
be a laughing-stock to the nations.’2219
| 2219 It is not known where this passage comes
from. | And from the sayings of Jeremiah they have cut out the
following: ‘I [was] like a lamb that is brought to the slaughter:
they devised a device against me, saying, Come, let us lay on wood on His
bread, and let us blot Him out from the land of the living; and His name
shall no more be remembered.’2220
And since this passage from the sayings of
Jeremiah is still written in some copies
[of the Scriptures]
in the synagogues of the Jews (for it is only a short time since they
were cut out), and since from these words it is demonstrated that the
Jews deliberated about the Christ Himself, to crucify and put Him to
death, He Himself is both declared to be led as a sheep to the slaughter,
as was predicted by Isaiah, and is here represented as a harmless lamb;
but being in a difficulty about them, they give themselves over to
blasphemy. And again, from the sayings of the same Jeremiah these have
been cut out: ‘The Lord God remembered His dead people of Israel
who lay in the graves; and He descended to preach to them His own
salvation.’2221
| 2221 This
is wanting in our Scriptures: it is cited by Iren., iii. 20, under the
name of Isaiah, and in iv. 22 under that of Jeremiah.—Maranus. | E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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