August 22
And when the days of Moses were ended, and the light of
Jesus, shining forth from the Day Spring of the Spirit, encompassed the world,
all the people of Israel arose in protest against Him. They clamored that He
Whose advent the Bible had foretold must needs promulgate and fulfil the laws
of Moses, whereas this youthful Nazarene, who laid claim to the station of the
divine Messiah, had annulled the laws of divorce and of the sabbath day—the
most weighty of all the laws of Moses. Moreover, what of the signs of the
Manifestation yet to come? These people of Israel are even unto the present day
still expecting that Manifestation which the Bible hath foretold! How many
Manifestations of Holiness, how many Revealers of the light everlasting, have
appeared since the time of Moses, and yet Israel, wrapt in the densest veils of
satanic fancy and false imaginings, is still expectant that the idol of her own
handiwork will appear with such signs as she herself hath conceived!
(Baha’u’llah, ‘Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u’llah’)
