He reigns over all; it is He who hath taught me
understanding." The prophets and saints of God have shewn that God and His
Word and His Spirit established all things and gave life to all things, and it
is not fitting for any one who knows what God hath sent down to His prophets,
that he should disdain to worship God and His Word and His Spirit, one God. It
was revealed to His prophet Daniel whom God made wise and gave him understanding
and shewed him the knowledge of the time, and revealed to him by means of
Gabriel the Archangel, and told him about the Christ the Word and the Light of
God, after he had fasted twenty-two days and called on God, saying to him,
"Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people and upon the city, and upon
the house, the Holy City, to make an end of sins, to destroy falsehood, to wipe
out iniquity, to forgive trespasses, and He shall come in everlasting
righteousness, and shall seal up the revelation and the prophecy, and anoint the
most Holy," that he might know and understand that from the going forth of
the decree of the renewal and the building of Jerusalem until the Messiah the
Prince is seventy [weeks), and this four hundred years before. When was sin cut
off, and... sealed up, and iniquity wiped out, and trespasses forgiven, save
when the Christ ...in everlasting righteousness ...and the confirmation of this
is that He sealed up every inspiration and prophecy which was among the children
of Israel from the days ...of the Holy of Holies ...and their prophecy ...thus
said the Christ ...He brought them near ...the Holy of Holies ...If He were not
the Christ ...the Christ more holy than ...He would have brought authority and
prophecy to nought ...the children of Israel when they disobeyed Him and did not
follow His word. [God] gave Him another people; as He said, and His word is
faithful. We shall not find that there is one name among the kings of the
children of Israel, nor among the prophets that is Most Holy. David was a king
and so were others. Of the children of Israel some were prophets and kings, and
none of them were called Most Holy save the Christ who reigns over the nations
by guidance and obedience;
