"That life
---was the light of the world,
---and revealed the hidden depravity in the hearts of men.
---It was the
holiness of Christ that stirred up against Him the fiercest passions
of falsehearted professors of godliness.
The Jews looked for the Messiah to break the
oppressor's yoke, yet they cherished the sins that had bound it
upon their necks.
The
loveliness of a character in which benevolence, purity, and 
holiness
reigned supreme, which entertained no hatred except for
sin, they despised.
Thus it has been in every age of the world.--- When rebuked by the example of those who hate
sin, hypocrites will become agents of Satan to harass and persecute
the faithful. "All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall
suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12."
E.G.W.