XL.—Again to the Same.

There is not an unbelieving people such as yours.  O evil men! in so many places, and so often rebuked by the law of those who cry aloud.  And the lofty One despises your Sabbaths, and altogether rejects your universal monthly feasts according to law, that ye should not make to Him the commanded sacrifices; who told you to throw a stone for your offence.  If any should not believe that He had perished by an unjust death, and that those who were beloved were saved by other laws, thence that life was suspended on the tree, and believe not on Him.  God Himself is the life; He Himself was suspended for us.  But ye with indurated heart insult Him.

XL.---ITERUM IPSIS.

Incredulus populus, non est nisi vester, iniqui, Tot locis et totiens reprobatus lege clamantum, Et sabbata vestra spernit et tricesimas Altus Respuit omnino universas vestras de lege, Ut ne sacrificia faceretis illi praecepta; Mittere qui dixit lapidem in scandalo vestro. Iniqua si qui non crediderint morte perisse; Perque alias leges salvari dilectos: inde 0231A Suspensam in ligno vitam, nec illi creditis, Ipse Deus vita est: pependit ipse pro nobis. Sed vos indurato corde subsannatis eumdem.