Lord Jesus Christ. The Jews, therefore, of the present day, who approve the condemnation of Jesus, unite with the enemies of Moses; but those who are lovers of the Mosaic law must approve the efforts of Jesus to deliver it from the corruptions or wicked and ambitious men. An unlawful tribunal condemned him for doing what every true Jew must acknowledge to be right. Whether, then, they acknowledge him as the Messiah, or not, they must confess that he died a martyr to his zeal for the law of Moses, and are, therefore, bound to re-consider his claims. Jesus was put to death, not because he violated the Mosaic precepts, but because he reproved others for their transgressions—not because he endeavoured to overturn the religion of Moses, but because he resolutely defended its truth against those who were introducing a new religion upon its ruins.
No. XLVI.
CONTEMPT FOR THE FEMALE CHARACTER.
Modern Judaism, or the religion of the oral law, cannot
bear the slightest investigation. Its existence depends altogether
upon a blind faith. As long as a man is willing to
deliver up his understanding into the hands of the rabbies,
and at their bidding believe that his right hand is his left, as
they require; so long he may be a zealous professor of Judaism.
But, the moment that he begins to think and to reason, and to
compare his traditional faith with the doctrines of Moses and
the prophets, he must begin to doubt, and if he really has a
love for the law of God, he must ultimately renounce that
superstition which caused the destruction of the temple and
all the subsequent calamities of his people, and still enslaves
the greatest portion of his nation. It matters not at which
point he views it—its theoretic principles and its practical
effects equally condemn it, and prove that it is so far from
being a revelation from God, that it is not even the work of
good or wise men. The doctrine of the Sanhedrin, which we
lately considered, exhibits it as a spiritual despotism the most
intolerable; but the utter contempt with which it looks down
upon the female portion of mankind makes it to this hour
a positive curse to the daughters of Israel, and proves that it
does not proceed from Him who created male and female, and
