before Me." See therefore that the people provoked our Lord to anger y5'^011' because they did not believe in Him ; wherefore He saith that "they provoked is. ixiii. 10 the Holy Spirit to anger, and turned themselves to enmity." And again otherwise He saith about them by means of Isaiah the prophet, " The is. ix. i land of Zebulun, the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations ; the people that sat [in] darkness, ye have 2 seen a great light, and those who sat in darkness and in the shadows of death, upon them hath the light shined." " Those that sat in darkness," He said, about those from the Nation who believed in our Lord Jesus ; for because of the blindness of the Nation a great darkness surrounded them ; for they saw Jesus, and they did not know that He was the Christ, and did not understand Him, not from the writings of the Prophets, nor from His works and healings ; but to you of the Nation who believe in Jesus we say, that ye have learnt how the Scripture testifieth about us and saith, "they have seen the great light." Ye therefore who have believed in Him, ye have seen a great Light, Jesus the Christ our Lord. And again those who believe in Him shall see; but those who sit in the shadows of death, are ye who are from among the Gentiles ; for ye have been among the shadows of death, ye who have trusted in the worship of idols, and have not known God; but when Jesus the Christ, our Lord and Teacher, was seen by us, a light dawned upon you, in that ye have gazed on and trusted in the promise of an everlasting kingdom, and ye have removed yourselves from the feasts .and customs of the former error ; and ye worship idols no more as ye worshipped them ; but ye have long since believed and have been baptized in Him, and a great light hath dawned upon you. Thus therefore because the Nation did not obey, there was darkness ; but the hearing of your ear, you who are from among the Gentiles, became light. Because of this therefore pray and implore for them, and especially in the days of the passover, that by your prayers they may be found worthy of forgiveness, and may be converted to our Lord Jesus the Christ.)