strokes between those letters, they would have concluded that their suspicions were right after all. He was attempting to do away with part of the law. Now, obviously, the Lord did not say what He did simply to accommodate an erroneous view. He was not speaking tongue-in-cheek in order to get past their prejudice. His use of the solemn affirmation, amen, precludes any such possibility. To the contrary, He was speaking in the most literal terms and doing so deliberately to an audience questioning