72. * his attempts at evil, and his falsehoods also, were turned, by a different way, into good, and into truth. So I am permitted to speak from actual, indisputable experience. [Good; Falsity; Evil; Truth] 3162. The Word of God the Messiah abounds in cases of this kind, of which the Messiah Himself was the example and the effigy. He allowed the devil to carry Him away even unto death on the cross, and yet this evil inflicted on Him by the Jews and, at the same time, by the devil, was turned into Good itself, for it resulted in the salvation of the human race. 3163. For this reason it is now added here, "That He might do as at this day, to make a great people alive." By "a great people" is meant Israel, which is thus made alive. No other people can be meant here, and certainly not the descendants of Jacob as long as they remain outside of the faith and thus outside the gates of the Kingdom of God the Messiah. These words were very distinctly brought in from heaven, though