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Search the Scriptures 2c.

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Search the Scriptures 2c.

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The Jews were right in thinking that they had eternal life in the Scriptures, for the same is true, it is the Word of the

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life. But that Christ should be such a life, and that the Scriptures should be understood by him, they did not want, and still do not want today, to seek another in it, which should make them alive and blessed; nothing comes of it. It is said, "it (the scripture) is that which testifies of me"; I am the same eternal life, which one has and finds in the scripture; apart from me one does not find life in it, but eternal death.