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TO THE CHRISTIAN PUBLIC.
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ;
and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation. / can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear,
J judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek not
mine own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent
me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
There is another that beareth witness of me; and I
know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is
true. Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the
truth. But I receive not testimony from man : but
these things I say, that ye might be saved. He was a
burning and a shining light : and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light. But I have greater wit-
ness than that of John : for the works which the Father
hath given me to finish, the same work that I do, bear
witness of me, that the Father hath sent me."
It would have been strange indeed, had Jesus, in
repelling the accusation of blasphemy, which had
wrought on the minds of the Jews so far that they
sought to kill him, confirmed their assertion, that he
made himself equal with God, and thus prematurely
endangered his own life ; but we find that so far from
being further incensed by the explanation above quoted,
they seem to have quietly acquiesced in his appeal to
their own Scriptures, that the Messiah should have al
the power and authority which he asserted the father
had given to himself. Ver. 46 : "For had ye believed
Moses, ye would have believed me ; for he wrote of me.''
The only text in the writings of Moses that refers to the
nature of the Messiah, is that of Deuteronomy, ch. xviii.
vers. 15 and 18, quoted by St. Peter in the Acts of rjhe
Apostles, eh. hi. ver. 22, and bv St, Stephen, ch. vii. ver.
they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life ;
and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of
damnation. / can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear,
J judge: and my judgment is just, because I seek not
mine own will, but the will of the Father who hath sent
me. If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.
There is another that beareth witness of me; and I
know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is
true. Ye sent unto John, and he bare witness unto the
truth. But I receive not testimony from man : but
these things I say, that ye might be saved. He was a
burning and a shining light : and ye were willing for a
season to rejoice in his light. But I have greater wit-
ness than that of John : for the works which the Father
hath given me to finish, the same work that I do, bear
witness of me, that the Father hath sent me."
It would have been strange indeed, had Jesus, in
repelling the accusation of blasphemy, which had
wrought on the minds of the Jews so far that they
sought to kill him, confirmed their assertion, that he
made himself equal with God, and thus prematurely
endangered his own life ; but we find that so far from
being further incensed by the explanation above quoted,
they seem to have quietly acquiesced in his appeal to
their own Scriptures, that the Messiah should have al
the power and authority which he asserted the father
had given to himself. Ver. 46 : "For had ye believed
Moses, ye would have believed me ; for he wrote of me.''
The only text in the writings of Moses that refers to the
nature of the Messiah, is that of Deuteronomy, ch. xviii.
vers. 15 and 18, quoted by St. Peter in the Acts of rjhe
Apostles, eh. hi. ver. 22, and bv St, Stephen, ch. vii. ver.