09. Conclusion

Conclusion.

I now appeal to every candid and unprejudiced Israelite or Christian, who has read these pages, whether I am not right in maintainingthat the Jewish Church before the Christian era, and in the first two centuries of the same, held the Doctrine of the Trinity as a fundamental and cardinal article of the true faith?

Again, I would ask every true and candid Israelite or Christian, who has read this little book, whether he can still persist in charging the Christian religion with Polytheism, or a species of Polytheism? Alas!Judaism, as it is at present, denies the true and Scriptural faith of her ancient and primitive Church, and teachesthat there is a great and a little Jehovah.Read:

"And Metatron (the Keeper of Israel), the Prince of God’s countenance, is calledthe littleGod. InDeuteronomy 11:7, it is written, But your eyes have seen all the acts the great Jehovah has done," implying* that there is also a little One, therefore it is said in the Thora (the Law, Exodus 23:21), Beware of Him, obey His voice, provoke Him not; for He will not pardon your transgressions; but He does not say I will not pardon your transgressions."

* The original text is "All the great acts of the Lord which He did." The construction is mediate, that is the word Lord is placed between acts, in stat. constr., and the great, the genitive case. This construction is very common in the Hebrew. (See Genesis 7:6; Isaiah 19:8; Isaiah 40:12; Hosea 14:3, &c. &c.). R. Abad perverts the Holy Scriptures in this and the following clause, from Exodus 23:21, to establish his doctrine of Polytheism, that there is a little Lord, and a great Lord. He transposes the adjective "great," belonging to "act," and places it before "Lord." In the quotation from Exodus 23:21, he labours to make out that there are two who can forgive sin, a little and a great Jehovah.

Such a doctrine as R. Abad thus teaches, every sincere and true Israelite will abhor with me; for he will see how modern Judaism has perverted not only the Holy Scriptures, but also the doctrine of the Trinity, and also that respecting Metatron, the Prince, the express image of God’s face or person. The Holy Scriptures, as shewn in these pages, and our ancient teachers have taught me, that all the Three Substantive Beings in the Unity of the Godhead, have one will and purpose; if One forgives transgression, the Others do so too.

"Although there are so many Persons united in the Unity, yet each Person is a Verity (a true One), what the One does, that does the Other." (Zohar, vol. ii., p. 43, versa, Amsterdam Edition) Because modern Judaism has stopped up the fountain of the waters of salvation, it is my prayer:

"O Lord, save Thy people, the remnant of Israel."