CHAPTER VIII.
STATEMENT OF ARGUMENTS WHICH PROVE THAT JESUS WAS NOT THE MESSIAH OF THE OLD TESTAMENT.
Most of our readers have, no doubt, heard from the pulpit, many exclamations and declamations against the "blindness of the Jews," in not recognizing their Messiah in Jesus of Nazareth.

The reasons of this "blindness" are made, I think, by this time pretty intelligible.
Nevertheless, for the further satisfaction of the reader, I will here set down the principal reasons given by Rabbi Isaac, in his "Munimen Fidei," which cause the Jews to deny the Messiahship of Jesus.
"At a certain time, (says he,) a certain learned man of the wise men of the Christians said unto me:--'Wherefore are you Jews unwilling to believe Jesus of Nazareth to be the Messiah, when yet your veritable prophets testified of him, whose words you profess to have faith in.' "I gave him this answer.

'How, I require, could we believe him to be the Messiah, when you can produce no genuine proof from the prophets in his favour, since all those things adduced by the evangelists from them, to prove Jesus the Messiah, are nothing to the purpose?
And we have many and evident reasons to prove that he was not the Messiah.

And of these, I will bring forward a few, arising, 1, From his genealogy.2.From his works.3.From the time of his appearing.4.From the prophecies of the things to take place in the time of the Messiah not having seen fulfilled in his age.

And in these things are contained the genuine marks characteristic of our Messiah.' "1.