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Law rather than on the spirit – and this in spite of the warnings of the Prophets: it was

the maintenance of the primitive idea, according to which, man chains himself to God
and chains God to him ritually.

This was so true that St. John, speaking of the Christ, made a tragic illustration:

... And the light shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.

... That was the true light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. He was
in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came

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unto his own, and his own received him not .
The tragedy that Our Saviour lived was based on this. If His people had reacted

differently, the Message that He brought could have established, if only partially, that
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reign of Justice that King David foresaw one thousand years before . In fact, it was
Golgotha that welcomed the Mystery of Revelation. But the victory of Darkness was an

illusion, since, according to the Easter hymn:

Christ is resurrected from the dead.
By His death, He conquered Death.

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John, I, 5-11. The text (Louis Segond) gives: and the darkness comprehended it not, is the
same as in the Slavonic text необъяла его where the word comprehended means to engulf or
to overhelm. To be compared with the Greek text οὐ κατέλαβεν or comprehenderunt of the
Vulgate,
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Psalm, LXXI (LXXII).