TESTIMONIES AGAINST THE JEWS. 83 ears,and understandwith theirheart,and shouldreturn,and I should heal them."1 Also in Jeremiah the Lord says: " They have forsaken me, the fountainof livingwater,and have dug for themselveswom-out cisterns,which could not hold water."1 Moreover,in the same : " Behold,the word of theLord has become unto them a reproach,and they do not wish forit."s Again in the same the Lord says: " The kiteknoweth histime,the turtle,and theswallow;*the spar rows of the fieldkeep the time of theircoming in; but my peopledoth not know the judgment of the Lord. How say ye,We are wise,and the law of the Lord iswith us ? The falsemeasurement5 has been made vain;the scribesare con founded ; the wise men have trembled,and been taken, because they have rejectedtheword oftheLord."6 In Solo mon also: " Evil men seek me, and shallnot findme ; for they held wisdom in hatred,and did not receivethe word of the Lord." 7 Also in the twenty-seventhPsalm : " Render to them theirdeserving,becausethey have not perceivedin the works of the Lord."8 Also in the eighty-firstPsalm : "They have not known, neither have they understood; theyshallwalk on in darkness."9 In theGospel,too,accord ing to John : " He came unto His own, and His own received Him not. As many as receivedHim, to them gave He power to become the sonsof God who believeon His name." 10 4. That the Jews would not understand the Holy Scrip tures,but that they would be intelligiblein the last times,afterthatChristhad come. In Isaiah: " And allthesewords shallbe unto you as the words of a book thatissealed,which,if you shallgive to a man thatknoweth lettersto read,he shallsay,I cannotread, for it is sealed. But in that day the deaf shallhear the 1 Isa.vi.9,10. 2Jer.ii.13. 8Jer.vi.10. 4Accordingto the Oxfordedition:"The turtleand the swallow knowethitstime,"etc. 5Sixancientauthoritieshave" yourmeasurement." «Jer.viii.7-9. *Prov.i 28,29. 8 Pa.xxriii.4,5. 8Ps.lxxxii.5. 10Johni.11,12.