GOLD AND SILVER THEIR MESSIAH
He will never come, for He has missed the “little while” and has gotten into the great, long while, which will never come to anything. For the prophet speaks of a “little while,” not of a great, long while!
But here they squirm out of it in this way: Since they cannot deny the “little while,” they take the expression: “Desire of Nations,” in Hebrew “Hemdath,” by itself, and crucify it. Say it should not designate “Messiah,” but should denote all gold and silver of the heathen. Because the word “Hemdath,” according to the grammar, really means “Desire and love for;” as that which the heathen desire and love. And now the text shall read thus: “After a little while the desire of all heathen shall come.” What is that? What do the heathen desire? Gold, silver, and jewels. You may be inclined to ask why the Jews insert such interpretations here. I will say: Their breath stinks for the gold and silver of the heathen, since no people under the sun always have been, still are, and always will remain more avaricious than they (the Jews) as can be noticed in their cursed usury. They also find comfort with this: “When Messiah comes, He shall take all the gold and silver in the world and distribute it among them (the Jews).” Thus wherever they can
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