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The true nature of the austere ascetic’s mission,
and the true sense of his preaching, is altogether
misunderstood by the Churches, but understood by the
Jewish priests and casuists who obstinately rejected
it. I shall deal with this in my next article, and show
that the nature of John’s mission as well as the object
of Christ’s message to the Jews was quite different to
what the Churches pretend to believe.
