Rambam, or Maimonides, in order to keep us in the dark,

אני מאמין באמונה שלמה שזאת התורה :which is as follows לא תהא מוחלפת ולא תהא תורה אחרת מאת הבורא יתברך

"I believe with a perfect faith, that this law will never be exchanged, nor will there be any other law given from the Creator, blessed be His name !" (9th Article of the Jewish Creed.) This article of faith is not only diametrically opposed to divine revelation, but also to ancient Jewish tradition. In Yalkut Simeoni we find the following pas

עתיד הקב"ה להיות יושב בגן עדן ודורש וכל צדיקים יושבים לפניו וכל פמליא של מעלה : sage עומדים על רגליהם וחמה ומזלות ממינו של הקב"ה ולבנה וככבים משמאלו והקבה יושב ודורש תורה חדשה שעתיד ליתן על יד משיח

“The Holy and Blessed One I will sit in the garden of Eden and lecture, and all the righteous men will sit before Him, and all the celestial army shall stand upon their feet, and the sun and the planets at the right hand of the Holy and Blessed One, the moon and the stars on his left hand; and the Holy and Blessed One will sit and discuss the new law, which He shall give through the Messiah." Hence it appears that the ancient Jewish Rabbies were fully convinced that the new law would be given through the Messiah.

In the appointed service for the first Saturday in the month Nisan, (which is about the beginning of April,) we find a description given of the events that shall happen in this month, where the following is also mentioned:

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,When a new law shall be given » חדשה לכרות ברית חדשה

a new covenant made." The objection, therefore, is supported neither by the word of the living God, nor by the tradition of our wise men. Our nation must, therefore, cancel one article of their faith; either the 6th, which is,

אני מאמין באמונה שלמה שכל דברי נביאים אמת

"I believe with a perfect faith, that all the words of the Prophets are true;" or the 9th, above alluded to; for they are evidently opposed to each other.

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Moses was a king; as we read in Deut. 33. 5 "And he was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people

and the tribes of Israel were gathered together." Likewise Jesus was a king: "And when He was come nigh, even now at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice, for all the mighty works that they had seen; saying, Blessed be the king that cometh in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven and glory in the highest." (Luke 19. 37, 38.) Pilate, after conversing with Jesus, was obliged to confess, "I find no fault in this man," and most probably, struck with His humility, believed the word of God more than our apostate Priests, Scribes, and Pharisees, remembering the words of the Prophet, “Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout, O daughter of Jerusalem; behold, thy King cometh unto thee; He is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding upon an ass, and upon a colt, the foal of an ass." (Zech. 9. 9.) We have every reason to suppose that Pilate, watching all the movements of Jesus of Nazareth, sincerely asked, "Shall I crucify your King?" and perseveringly called Him thus; he determined that He should be called so, and therefore exclaimed, "Behold your King!" And even after the crucifixion of Jesus, his faith was stronger than theirs; for he "wrote a title, and put it on the cross. And the writing was, JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS;" and when the infidel chief priests objected to it, Pilate firmly withstood them. Thus it will be more tolerable to him in the day of judgment than to them. But Jesus is yet to be King of the Jews, and acknowledged as such, when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel shall be gathered together. "He will pour upon the house of Israel, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and supplication; and they shall look upon Him whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for Him, as one that mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for Him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born." (Zech. 12. 10.) Then shall the whole of our nation shout with a

voice as that of many waters, with enraptured acclamation, "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord." (Luke 13. 35.)

Moses was a priest, as we read, Ps. 99. 6, "Moses and Aaron among His priests." Jesus is a Priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec, the King of Righteousness. Moses was a prophet. Every one reading the predictions of Jesus, as contained in the New Testament, must acknowledge that Jesus was the greatest Prophet of the two.

Moses taught the children of Israel the doctrine of God's unity in the following precept: "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." (Deut. 6. 4.) Jesus also taught particularly the same doctrine; for we read of "one of the scribes," who came and asked Jesus, saying, "Which is the first commandment of all? And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God is one Lord."* (Mark 12. 29.)

* Modern Jews are apt to advance this passage as an argument against the Holy Trinity; becanse they say it speaks here of an unequivocal unity. But it is very remarkable, that the ancient Jewish divines and expounders of the law taught from this very passage the doctrine of the Triune Jehovah. I will quote a passage from the 2nd vol. of Zohar, fol. 160, col. 2, in order to make my assertion good. in T x "Israel unites the three hypostases, the Lord, our God, One Lord, to make all, to be but One." On the same page

יי אלהינו יי אחד למהוי כלא חר סטרין

ידוד אלהינו ידוד דא הוא הוא דיהודא בתלת סטרין we find the following passage

"The Lord, our God, Lord; this is the mystery of the Unity in three hypostases." Now the above are expositions on Deut. 6. 4; therefore no objection can be urged from it against the orthodox faith of a Trinity in Unity. The unbelieving Jews are very fond of asserting that no Jew can become a real Christian, and, therefore, that all converted Jews are necessarily impostors; and in proof of this assertion, they generally relate that they know of many converted Jews who, on their death-bed, exclaimed, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord." Of course the assertion and the proof owe their existence to their ignorance of the New Testament; for were they at all acquainted with it, they would know that the first promulgators of Chris

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Moses brought darkness on all the land of Egypt; the death of Jesus brought darkness on all the land of Judea. After Moses brought darkness, the first-born of the Egyptians were slain. The darkness in consequence of the crucifixion of Jesus, was followed by the destruction. of the Jews, (who are called first-born,) by Titus Vespasian.

Moses predicted the calamities of the Jews; Jesus foretold the horrible siege and destruction of Jerusalem. The spirit in Moses was put on the seventy elders; the spirit of Jesus was poured on the twelve apostles and the seventy disciples. Moses vanquished kings and nations of the earth; Jesus leads captivity captive the kings and nations of the world, through His everlasting Gospel. Moses conquered Amalek by holding up his hands; Jesus conquers Satan and sinners by His intercession in heaven. Moses turned away the wrath of God from the rebellious Israelites; Jesus turns away the wrath of God from all the millions of His people by His death and intercession. Moses ratified the covenant between God and the Israelites, by blood sprinkled on the people (Exod. 24. 7, 8); Jesus ratified the covenant of grace by the shedding of His own blood. Moses instituted the passover; Jesus instituted the last supper in remembrance that He, our Passover, was sacrificed for us. Moses lifted up the serpent to cure the Israelites that were stung; Jesus was lifted up on the cross, to cure our souls stung and poisoned with sin. The love of Moses for his nation was repaid with ingratitude and enmity. All of us, even believers, have been ungrateful to Jesus Christ, and sometimes ene

tianity were Jews, and Jews only; who counted not their lives dear to them in order that they might preach the unsearchable riches of Christ. They ought to remember, that the head cornerstone of the Christian Church is a Jew, and the injunction, "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God is one Lord," is His teaching, as well as that of Moses; and it may properly be the dying words of every faithful Christian, not only Jewish but also Gentile.

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mies of His cross, as the children of Israel are even now, to whom He came first, but they sought to kill Him. Moses was ill-used by his own family; the near relations of Jesus did not believe on Him. Moses had a wicked and perverse people to deal with for forty years; Jesus had to deal with a people who were designated serpents and a generation of vipers.' Moses was very meek above all men; Jesus was infinitely meeker than Moses, and all the meekest men in the world. The people could not get into the land of Canaan until Moses was dead. Not one soul could ever be admitted into the kingdom of heaven but on the foundation of the death of Christ, who hath opened the kingdom of heaven, by His atoning blood, to all believers. Moses died on account of the rebellion of the people, as he himself said, "But the Lord was wrath with me for your sakes." was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed." (Is. 53. 5; 1 Peter 2. 24.) Moses went up to die on the mount Nebo; Jesus went up to die on the mount Calvary. Moses died in the vigour of his age-" his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated;" Jesus died in the flower and glory of His manhood. Moses was buried, and no man saw his body. The unbelieving Jews did not deserve to see the body of Jesus after His resurrection. Moses warned them against false prophets (Deut. 13. *); Jesus forewarned

(Deut. 3. 26.) Jesus

* The Jews invariably apply this chapter to Jesus. In fact, their children at school are taught to explain it so, and quote it as a reason, if asked by a Christian, why they do not believe in Jesus; but this, like all their other objections, is owing to their inadequate knowledge of the New Testament; for if they had only a moderate knowledge of it, they would know that Jesus never taught any thing else but to worship the true and only God, in spirit and in truth; (see p. 210 ;) whilst the prophet, in Deut. 13, speaks on this wise: "Let us go after other gods, which thou hast not known, and let us serve them."