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plainly things
which come to pass, and who declares his intention both to blind and to
enlighten, and who intersperses obscurities among the clear things which
come to pass?

757. The time of the first advent was foretold; the time of the second is
not so; because the first was to be obscure, and the second is to be
brilliant and so manifest that even His enemies will recognise it. But, as
He was first to come only in obscurity and to be known only of those who
searched the Scriptures.

758. God, in order to cause the Messiah to be known by the good and not to
be known by the wicked, made Him to be foretold in this manner. If the
manner of the Messiah had been clearly foretold, there would have been no
obscurity, even for the wicked. If the time had been obscurely foretold,
there would have been obscurity, even for the good. For their goodness of
heart would not have made them understand, for instance, that the closed mem
signifies six hundred years. But that time has been clearly foretold, and
the manner in types.

By this means, the wicked, taking the promised blessings for material
blessings, h

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lay hold. It only leaps to them, not as upon a
throne, for ever, but merely for an instant.

352. The strength of a man's virtue must not be measured by his efforts, but
by his ordinary life.

353. I do not admire the excess of a virtue as of valour, except I see at
the same time the excess of the opposite virtue, as in Epaminondas, who had
the greatest valour and the greatest kindness. For otherwise it is not to
rise, it is to fall. We do not display greatness by going to one extreme,
but in touching both at once, and filling all the intervening space. But
perhaps this is only a sudden movement of the soul from one to the other
extreme, and in fact it is ever at one point only, as in the case of a
firebrand. Be it so, but at least this indicates agility if not expanse of
soul.

354. Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and
retreats.

Fever has its cold and hot fits; and the cold proves as well as the hot the
greatness of the fire of fever.

The discoveries of men from age to age turn out the same. The kindness and
the malice of the world in general are the same. Plerumqu