»ማኵ» একখানি লেখ্য লইয়া তাহার নিকট যাও । গিয়া বল তোমার পিতৃগৃহে বিবাহ-মহোৎসব হইবে। পরে ব্রাহ্মণ সেই রূপই করিলেন । রক্ষকাম্বা ব্রাহ্মণকে পিত্রালয় ছইতে অভ্যাগত বুঝিয়া অতিশয় আনন্দিত হইলেন এবং যত্নসহকারে উহার ভূরি ভোজনের আয়োজন করিয়া দিলেন । ঐ সময় রামানুজ গৃহে উপস্থিত হন। র্তাহার পত্নীও পিতৃগৃহে ভাবী বিবাহমছোৎসবের ব্যাপার তাহার কর্ণগোচর করেন । রামনুজ যেন এই বিষয়ের বিন্দুবিসর্গ কিছুই জানেন না, তিনি পত্নীমুখে এই সংবাদ পাইয়া অত্যন্ত সস্তুষ্ট হন, এবং এই উপায়ে পত্নীকে তাহার পিত্রালয়ে পাঠাইয় দেন । পরে তিনি গৃহ ঐশ্বৰ্য্য সমস্ত পরিত্যাগ করিয়৷ তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিক " ত্ৰিদণ্ডাদি গ্রহণ পূর্বক সন্ন্যাস আশ্রয় ! করেন । ቖmoሸ: தகங்கன் THE EVIDENCE OF JESUS. (FROM THE REV, CHARLEs voyśEy's “The SLING AND THE STONE.") (Continued from the last munber of this journal) If Jesus did really make such a valuable communication to the two disciples on the rond to Emmaus, and subsequently to the eleven apostles gathered in Jerusalem, it is to be regretted that so important a commentary has s० कन्न; * छॉर्भ phecies in such a manner as Christ applied them to himself, and that it was only a mere fraction of the Jewish people who were ever persuaded to adopt his interpretation, instead of the other and most obviously correct one which had been universally held. I turn now to consider some of the direct quotations made by Jesus in reference to himself. Luke IV. 16, 20. “ As his custom was, hewent into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written, The spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath annoited me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath anointed me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord.” “And he closed the book aud gave it again to the minister, and sat down ; and the eyes of all them that were in the Synagogue were fastened on him. And he began to say unto then, This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears.” Were “the eyes of all fastened on him” because he had read so short a lesson or was it because he had suddenly broken off at an awkward passage, which would have quite spoilt his quotations We can not tell. But on referring to Isaiah 1XI, 1–9, been lost. It is the very thing we want to get at. Amidst all these loose generalitics and vague allusions, wo search in vain for chapter and verse to which we can refer for the alleged predictions. At the same time, it must be noticed how the narrative betrays that the interpretation put by Christ upon Old Testament prophecies was an entirely new onc, and quite foreign to the well-known and recognized interpretation current among the Jews in the time of Christ. We have here an unconscious testimony from a period ranging from about 800 years before Christ down to the very day of his death, no one ever dresmed of interpreting the pro we do find some alterations of importance without which Jesus would have failed entirely in applying the passage to himself Let us road it, noticing the important alterations as we go along. “The spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord hath' anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of “the prison to them that are bound; ” (proclaiming liberty” is certainly a happier expression than “preaching deliverance" to captives, which might be only words; moreover “the opening of the prison to them that are bound" is a feature that Jesus never had any tilought I of adopting, not even to rescue his old fiend ._CQmpare Mark IV. 11, is, and Luke WIII, 10, where it is worse i
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