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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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lies in his onmolative attempts to prove that <strong>the</strong><br />

individual miraculous facts recorded in <strong>the</strong><br />

Gospels are based upon Jewish notions. It iM,<br />

<strong>the</strong>refore, necessary to o-«^««iwi> q^^ <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m<br />

separately, <strong>and</strong> such ^'^minntlfm, if careful <strong>and</strong><br />

oonsdentions, ahowa that his quotations are <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

unlrastworthy, <strong>and</strong> his conclusions fallaoieB. None<br />

<strong>the</strong> less taking are <strong>the</strong>y to thooe who ai«<br />

imperfectly acquainted with i^^Mnio literature.<br />

Wiimeke*9 Talmudio <strong>and</strong> Midrashio Notes on <strong>the</strong><br />

N.T. (Gdtfeiimii, 1878) aie also too <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

mialeiMlii^.<br />

have lent <strong>the</strong>ir authority to it. Of <strong>the</strong> two passages<br />

by which this CHAP, strange hypo<strong>the</strong>sis is<br />

supported, that in <strong>the</strong> Targum on Cant. ii. 12 xn<br />

may at once be dismissed, as dating considerably<br />

alEfcer <strong>the</strong> close <strong>of</strong> '—^"^ <strong>the</strong> Talmud. <strong>The</strong>re<br />

remains, <strong>the</strong>refore, only <strong>the</strong> one passage in <strong>the</strong><br />

Talmud,* which is generally thus quoted : ^ <strong>The</strong><br />

Spirit <strong>of</strong> Qoi moved *Ohaff.iic<br />

on <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> waters, like a dove.'^ That this

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