The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

* The passage from Talkut on Is. Ix. 1 is quoted in
full in Appendix IX.
that the Synagogue fiiids itself in presence of an
insoluble mysteiy. OHAP. The explanations
attempted are, confessedly, guesses, or rather at*
▼ tempts to evade the issue. The only course left
is, authoritatively '■""^' ' to impose silence on aU
such inquiries—the silence, as they would put it,
of implicit, mournful submission to the
inexplicable, in faith that somehow, when least
expected, deliverance would come; or, as we
would put it, the silence of ever-recurring
disappointment and despair. Thus the grand hope
of the Synagogue is, as it were, written in an
epitaph on a broken tombstone, to be repeated by
the thousands who, for these long centuries, have
washed the ruins of the Sanctuary with unavailing
tears.
5. Why delayeth the Messiah His coming f Since
the brief and broken sunshine of the days of Ezra
and Nehemiah, the sky over* head has ever grown