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5)イエス、「神はいつ罪が何かの犠牲によって消えると言われたか教えて下さい。
6)ダビデは神が罪をあがなう犠牲を要しないこと、寧ろ罪に対する供物（そなえもの）として燔祭（はんさい）をその顔の前に供えるのが罪なりと言って居りませんか(詩四〇.六)。イザヤもそれと同じことを一言って居りませんか。」
7)祭司、「君はどうかしてるよ。君はイスラエルのすべての祭司以上に神の律法を知っているのか。ここは子供がえらそうなことをしゃべるところじゃない。」
8)しかし、イエスはこの叱責を気に止めず、最高法院（サンヘドリン）の首長ヒレルに行って言った、
9)「先生（ラボニ）、お話したいことがあります、わたしは、過越（すぎこし）の祭礼の行事について気が気でありません。わたしは神の宮は愛と親切のやどるところと思っていました。
10)あなたや、彼処（かしこ）で人々が殺している小羊の鳴き声や鳩の悲鳴をお聞きになりませんか、あなたは焼肉から来るいやらしい臭気を嗅（か）ぎませんか。
11)人間はやさしく正しい筈（はず）なのに、どうしてこんなに残酷なのですか。
12)血と焼肉の犠牲を喜ぶような神は、わたしの父神てはない。
13)わたしは愛の神を見出したい。先生、あなたは賢明です、屹度（きっと）どこで愛の神を見出せるか、話して下さることが出来る筈です。」
14)しかし、ヒレルは子供に答えられなかった。心は同情にかき乱された。彼は子供をひき寄せ、その頭に手を置いて泣いた。
15)彼は言う、「愛の神がいますから、一緒に行こう。共に手をつないで行って愛の神をさがそう。」
16)イエス、「なぜ行くのですか。わたしは神がどこにでもお出でになると思っていました。わたしどもは心を清め無慈悲（むじひ）とすべての悪念をのぞき去り、そして心のなかを愛の神の住み給う宮とすることが出来ませんか。」
17)堂々たる最高法院（サンヘドリソ）の先生は自分が全く子供で、自分の前に一層高き律法のラボニが居るような気がした。
18)彼は心中密か思った、「この子こそ確かに神の送り給うた予言者だ。」
19)それからヒレルは子供の両親をたずね、イエスが自分と一緒にいて、律法の教訓や宮の祭司のすべての課業を学ぶようにさせたいがどうかと尋ねた。
20)両親は承諾した。そしてイエスはエルサレムの聖き宮のなかに留まり、ヒレルは毎日彼を教えた。
21)毎日教師は却ってイエスから多くの人生の責き教訓を学んだ。
22)子供は一年間ヒレルと共に宮に残り、それからナザレのわが家に帰り、そこで大工となって父ヨセフと共に働いた。
【原文：The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus by Levi H. Dowling 】
SECTION V
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Childhood and Early Education of Jesus
CHAPTER 18
Jesus at a feast in Jerusalem. Is grieved by the cruelties of the
sacrificers.
Appeals to Hillel, who sympathizes with him. He remains in the temple a year.
THE
great feast of the Jews was on, and Joseph, Mary and their son, and
many of their kin, went to Jerusalem. The child was ten years old.
2) And Jesus watched the butchers kill the lambs and birds and burn them on the altar in the name of God.
3) His tender heart was shocked at this display of cruelty; he asked the serving priests,
What is the purpose of this slaughter of the beasts and birds? Why do you burn their flesh before the Lord?
4) The priest replied,
This
is our sacrifice for sin. God has commanded us to do these things, and
said that in these sacrifices all our sins are blotted out.
5) And Jesus said,
Will you be kind enough to tell when God proclaimed that sins are blotted out by sacrifice of any kind?
6)
Did not David say that God requires not a sacrifice for sin? that it is
a sin itself to bring before his face burnt offerings, as offerings for
sin? Did not Isaiah say the same?
7) The priest replied,
My
child you are beside yourself. Do you know more about the laws of God
than all the priests of Israel? This is no place for boys to show their
wit.
8) But Jesus heeded not his taunts; he went to Hillel, chief of the Sanhedrin, and he said to him,
9)
Rabboni, I would like to talk with you; I am disturbed about this
service of the pascal feast. I thought the temple was the house of God
where love and kindness dwell.
10) Do you not hear the
bleating of those lambs, the pleading of those doves that men are
killing over there? Do you not smell that awful stench that comes from
burning flesh?
11) Can man be kind and just, and still be filled with cruelty?
12) A God that takes delight in sacrifice, in blood and burning flesh, is not my Father-God.
13) I want to find a God of love, and you, my master, you are wise, and surely you can tell me where to find the God of love.
14)
But Hillel could not give an answer to the child. His heart was stirred
with sympathy. He called the child to him; he laid his hand upon his
head and wept.
15) He said,
There is a God of love, and you shall come with me; and hand in hand we will go forth and find the God of love.
16) And Jesus said,
Why
need we go? I thought that God is everywhere. Can we not purify our
hearts and drive out cruelty, and every wicked thought, and make
within, a temple where the God of love can dwell?
17)
The master of the great Sanhedrin felt as though he was himself the
child, and that before him stood Rabboni, master of the higher law.
18) He said within himself,
This child is surely a prophet sent from God.
19)
Then Hillel sought the parents of the child, and asked that Jesus might
abide with them, and learn the precepts of the law, and all the
lessonsof the temple priests.
20) His parents gave consent, and Jesus did abide within the holy temple in Jerusalem, and Hillel taught him every day.
21) And every day the master learned from Jesus many lessons of the higher life.
22)
The child remained with Hillel in the temple for a year, and then
returned unto his home in Nazareth; and there he wrought with Joseph as
a carpenter.
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