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Christ. Thus God shewed to Daniel the prophet with Gabriel the Archangel
when he saw the stone that was cut from a mountain without hands, which
smote on the foot of the idol, and broke the clay and the iron and the brass
and the silver and the gold, and it became like dust when it is scattered in
the harvest, and the force of the wind blows upon it, and no more trace
appeared to them. The stone which smote the idol became a great mountain,
and filled the whole earth. The Angel Gabriel shewed to Daniel that the idol
whose head was of gold, his breast and his hands and his belly and his
thighs of brass, and his legs and his feet of iron and clay; these were the
kings of the world who reign in this world; but the stone which was cut from
a mountain without hands, was verily the Word and the Authority of God, who
subdues the kings of the world and reigns for ever and ever, and His
authority fills the whole earth, and reigns over the nations in obedience
and guidance. But the mountain is Mary from whom the Christ was born without
a man approaching her. He subdued the authority and the error of Satan, and
led men to righteousness and godliness and a knowledge of the truth of God.
Zechariah the prophet prophesied by the Holy Ghost, saying, "Rejoice
greatly, O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold, thy
King cometh unto thee, riding upon an ass and her foal." The Christ
came in when He entered the Holy City, sitting upon an ass, on the day of
the palm-trees. The children of Israel met Him with olive-trees and
palm-branches with their wives and children; the babes and sucklings adored
Him, saying, " Hosanna to the Son of David; blessed is He who cometh
King of Israel." The priests of the Jews said to the Christ, "Hearest
thou not what these say, doth not their saying exalt thee when they adore
thee as God is adored?" The Christ said to them, "Have ye not read
in the psalms of the prophet David, that he said by the Holy Ghost, `Out of
the mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast preordained Thy praise'?"
This is in the eighth psalm. The prophet David prophesied and said, "O
Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Thy name in all the earth! Thou hast
created Thy
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