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After affirming his "great love for Judaism and Israel," he stated his determination to continue in the steps of his predecessor Card. Franz König, who was a strong supporter of Judaism as well. He concluded with words from Isaiah: "From Zion the law shall come forth" (2:3), affirming that in the Ten Commandments the Menorah lights the way for all people.
It is quite difficult not to see in these last words an implicit denial of the vocation of the Catholic Church, which replaced the Chosen People of the Old Testament and to whom those words of Isaiah must be applied.