Add to ORKGJohn the Baptist at the dawning of the new age, the coming of the Kingdom, called men away from ties of home, nation, Temple, and cultus into the desert, to meet there the God who was with Israel before Israel had a home, a national life, a Temple, and a cultus. The repentance which he preached was a great act of detachment. Likewise Jesus detached His disciples from the traditional standards of clean and unclean, pointed to Himself as greater than the Temple, and promised to build His ’εχχληοι̇α, His people of God, as inheritor of Israel\u27s promise but detached from Israel\u27s standards and Israel\u27s fate. And Jesus put the world\u27s first, daily bread, into fourth place in the prayer which He taught us to pray. Even the hallowed tie...