Volume 2

Jesus Travels to Ophra
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received baptism. He often gathered many of the youths
of Korea around him, instructed them and, inspired by
the Spirit, prophesied to them of Jesus. His parents loved
him on account of his piety and zeal, and provided him
with clothing of the best. When Jesus gave him sight, He
said: "I give thee a double gift, sight of soul and of
body." The Pharisees of Korea treated Manahem with
contempt on account of his prophecies. They called them
troubled fancies, foolish reveries, and said that he was
vain of his fine clothes. They had brought him out themselves
to meet Jesus, being firmly convinced that He
could not cure him since no one had ever seen any pupil
in his eyes. And now that he was restored to sight, the
most wicked among them dared to affirm that he had
never been blind, that being an Essenian, he had very
likely made a vow to feign blindness.
The Pharisees who spoke with Jesus of Ezechiel had
expressed their contempt for the Prophet. He was, they
said, only a servant of Jeremias and he had, in the school
of the Prophet, very preposterous, very gloomy reveries.
Things had fallen out quite differently from his predictions.
Manahem also had uttered very profound prophecies
of Melchisedech, Malachias, and Jesus.
1. Is. 54-55.
3. JESUS IN OPHRA, SALEM, AND ARUMA
One hour to the southwest of Korea was the city of
Ophra, hidden among the mountains. Starting from
Korea the traveller had first to ascend and then to descend
the mountain road. An hour and a half at most
westward from it, and on the north side of the desert to
Bethoron toward the west, stood the mountain fortress of
Alexandrium. Mount Garizim lay on the northwest, to
the south and west the plain just mentioned and the