Spalding and Magan's Unpublished Manuscript Testimonies - Ellen G. White

under their control, and making their own laws and
rules,--rules that were not after God's order at all,
but which revealed the very attributes of Satan.
It was this spirit that was manifested by the
priests and temple officials in their gatherings for
the Passover. Cattle were bought by the dignitaries,
the moneyed men, who oppressed them of whom
they purchased. The representation was made that
these animals were to be offered as a sacrifice to
God at the Passover, and thus urged the owners
sold them at a cheap price. Then these scheming
men brought their purchases to the temple,--
purchases which meant double robbery-robbery of
the men of whom they had purchased, and robbery
of those who wished to sacrifice, to whom they
were sold again at exorbitant prices.
They used the courts of the temple as though
the animals brought there made them of the highest
value. Oh, what deceit, what hypocrisy was
practiced. Twice Christ's displeasure was
evidenced against them. Divinity flashed through
humanity, and he drove out the buyers and sellers
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