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177The 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.
