they had rejected Him, and continued to reject Him because their hearts were corrupt. And it had always been thus–the evidence against the Jews was all there in the Bible, which they had written themselves.79 Therein, of course, lay a terrible problem for the Jews. One of their greatest gifts was the critical faculty. They had always had it. It was the source of their rationality, one of the factors which brought them to monotheism in the first place, for their critical sense would not allow them to accept the follies of polytheism. But they were not only critical; they were, perhaps above
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