flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field.”1 If all flesh is grass, the carnal Jews were grass; and did not the grass wither when that people, devoid of spiritual unction, adhered to the dry letter?2 And did not the flower fall off when they no longer gloried in the law? If the flower did not fall, where is their kingdom, their priesthood, their prophets, their temple? Where are those wonders in which they were wont to glory and to say: “How great things have we heard and