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Chapter 72: Passages Have Been Removed by the Jews from Esdras and Jeremiah.

AND I SAID: "I shall do as you wish. From the statements that Esdras made about the law of the Passover, they have removed the following: 'And Esdras said to the people, This Passover is our Savior and our refuge. And if you have understood, and your heart has accepted it, that we shall humble Him on a cross, and then hope in Him, then this place shall never be abandoned, says the God of hosts. But if you do not believe Him and do not listen to His declaration, you shall be mocked by the nations.' And from the words of Jeremiah, they have removed the following: 'I was like a lamb that is brought to the slaughter: they plotted against me, saying, Come, let us put wood on His bread, and let us erase Him from the land of the living; and His name shall no longer be remembered.'

Since this passage from the words of Jeremiah is still written in some copies of the Scriptures in the synagogues of the Jews (as it was only recently removed), and since these words show that the Jews planned to crucify and kill the Christ Himself, He is both shown to be led as a sheep to the slaughter, as Isaiah predicted, and is here depicted as a harmless lamb. But being challenged by these words, they resort to blasphemy. Again, from the words of the same Jeremiah, these have been removed: 'The Lord God remembered His dead people of Israel who lay in the graves; and He descended to preach to them His own salvation.'"

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