the vail should be taken away? “Let them turn to the Lord.” For then the old things are not
taken away, but laid up in a treasury, that the Scribe may henceforth be “instructed in the
kingdom of God, bringing forth out of his treasure” not “new things” only, nor “old things”
only. For if he bring forth “new things” only or “old things” only; he is not “a scribe instructed
in the kingdom of God, bringing forth out of his treasure things new and old.” If he say and
do them not; he brings forth from the official seat, not from the treasure of his heart. And
(we speak the truth, Holy Brethren) what things are brought out of the old, are illustrated
by the new. Therefore do “we turn to the Lord, that the vail may be taken away.”
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