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ye then to one another so that the Jews, who are blind in heart, and who are our enemies and the enemies of our Lord God, may not boast themselves " over us. And they say, Your gods are many, and ye " worship wood (i.e. the Cross), and they say, preaching " Ye worship openly the word of Isaiah the Prophet, the half of it, and with the other half ye cook the body Now Isaiah speaketh thus in respect of those who worship graven images and idols. And they " These are our gods, and they have say [that we say], " created us and that we talk to them and worship ; them as the Lord our God. And these also are they whom the devils lead into error in their wickedness, and David saith, concerning them, " The gods of the heathen are devils, but God hath created the heavens ; truth and goodness are before Him." 2 and eat [it]." 1 104. MORE CONCERNING THE ARK AND THE TALK OF THE WICKED And as concerning the Ark God saved Noah in the And God held converse with Abraham in the : Ark. wood of Manbar, 3 that is to say the wood that cannot be destroyed and He saved Isaac by means of the ram and He made Jacob which was caught in the thicket 4 rich by means of three rods of woods which he laid in 5 and through the top of his staff Jacob running water 6 And He said unto Moses, " Make a was blessed. tabernacle of wood which cannot be destroyed, in the ; ; ; similitude of Zion, the Tabernacle of the Covenant." And when David took it from the city of Samaria, he placed the Tabernacle of the Law in a new Tabernacle, For from the beginning God and rejoiced before it. 7 had made the Tabernacle the means 1 Isaiah xliv, 1 6. 5 2 Psalm xcvi, 5. 6 3 Compare Genesis xviii, I, 7 4 Genesis xxii, 13. 196 of salvation, Genesis xxx, 37. Genesis xlvii, 31 ; Hebrews xi, 21. 2 Samuel vi, 3.