A Present to His Royal Highness - The Prince of Wales — Page 26
26 he forgave them; when the rope was put round their necks he released them; when the sword was about to be applied to their throats he granted them new life, and forgave such a multitude of sins and transgressions that if his forgiveness were divided among a thousand prophets it would exceed that which all of them together had shown. But as God, the fountain-head of Mercy and forgiveness, seizes the evil-doer and chastises him, to correct but not to inflict pain; so did this Prophet that he might prove himself the like of Moses and the Perfect Manifestation of God. Had he not done this, these very detractors would have cried out, “Behold this man, who calls himself the like of Moses. Where are his ten thousands of saints who were to accompany him from Mount Paran to chastise the evil- doer and to establish the kingdom of God on earth? He calls himself the last Law-giver but when was it fulfilled of him that “The pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand. He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall My righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. Therefore will I divide him a portion with the Great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors: and he bare the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors?” ∗ If he had never made war and had gone on forgiving, they would have said, When did he divide the spoil with the strong, that we should believe he will establish the ∗ Isaiah liii: 10—12.