their saying; how far it hath strayed from the path
of knowledge and understanding! Observe how in
this day also, all these people have occupied themselves
with such foolish absurdities. For over a
thousand years they have been reciting this verse,
and unwittingly pronouncing their censure against
the Jews, utterly unaware that they themselves,
openly and privily, are voicing the sentiments and
belief of the Jewish people! Thou art surely aware
of their idle contention, that all Revelation is
ended, that the portals of Divine mercy are closed,
that from the day-springs of eternal holiness no
sun shall rise again, that the Ocean of everlasting
bounty is forever stilled, and that out of the Tabernacle
of ancient glory the Messengers of God have
ceased to be made manifest. Such is the measure
of the understanding of these small-minded, contemptible
people. These people have imagined that
the flow of God's all-encompassing grace and plenteous
mercies, the cessation of which no mind can
contemplate, has been halted. From every side
they have risen and girded up the loins of tyranny,
and exerted the utmost endeavour to quench with
the bitter waters of their vain fancy the flame
of God's burning Bush, oblivious that the globe
of power shall within its own mighty stronghold
