CHAPTER CXXXV
Christ is the King of Israel, Christians are the Israelitic Race.
"And when Scripture says, 'I am the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, who have made known
Israel your King,'(1) will you not understand that truly Christ is the everlasting King? For you are
aware that Jacob the son of Isaac was never a king. And therefore Scripture again, explaining to
us, says what king is meant by Jacob and Israel: 'Jacob is my Servant, I will uphold Him; and
Israel is mine Elect, my soul shall receive Him. I have given Him my Spirit; and He shall bring
forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, and His voice shall not be heard without. The
bruised reed He shall not break, and the smoking flax He shall not quench, until He shall bring
forth judgment to victory. He shall shine, and shall not be broken, until He set judgment on the
earth. And in His name shall the Gentiles trust.'(2) Then is it Jacob the patriarch in whom the
Gentiles and yourselves shall trust? or is it not Christ? As, therefore, Christ is the Israel and the
Jacob, even so we, who have been quarried out from the bowels of Christ, are the true Israelitic
race. But let us attend rather to the very word: 'And I will bring forth,' He says, 'the seed out of
Jacob, and out of Judah: and it shall inherit My holy mountain; and Mine Elect and My servants
shall possess the inheritance, and shall dwell there; and there shall be folds of flocks in the thicket,
and the valley of Achor shall be a resting-place of cattle for the people who have sought Me. But
as for you, who forsake Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for demons, and
fill out drink for the demon, I shall give you to the sword. You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I
called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I
delighted not.'(3) Such are the words of Scripture; understand, therefore, that the seed of Jacob
now referred to is something else, and not, as may be supposed, spoken of your people. For it is
not possible for the seed of Jacob to leave an entrance for the descendants of Jacob, or for
[God] to have accepted the very same persons whom He had reproached with unfitness for the
inheritance, and promise it to them again; but as there the prophet says, 'And now, O house of
Jacob, come and let us walk in the light of the Lord; for He has sent away His people, the house
of Jacob, because their land was full, as at the first, of soothsayers and divinations;'(4) even so it
is necessary for us here to observe that there are two seeds of Judah, and two races, as there are
two houses of Jacob: the one begotten by blood and flesh, the other by faith and the Spirit.
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