Excerpt from The Laws of the Kingdom, Vol. 14 Ception on the point. It was rumoured, and part 1. Several things gave colour to the rumour, that general the new Prophet's teaching was essentially de principle structive - hostile to, and meant to subvert, the good old system of law and rite delivered to the fathers through the hand of Moses. Two parties in the nation caught at this notion; the one in hepe, the other in fear. While the mass of the common people, busy with field labour or with trade, were not ill-pleased to hear that the strict discipline and intolerably minute rubrics of the old law were to be relaxed; a smaller section, Whose professional importance and reputation for sanctity rested mainly on their exceptional oh servance of legal punctilio, resented the infrac tion of the written code, even in a jet or tittle, ' as sacrilege or apostasy. It was against this two-faced misconception J esus had to guard His own position; and it was this which determined the two-faced form of His main statement. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.