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

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seems to widen as He gazes; <strong>and</strong> more <strong>and</strong> more,<br />

<strong>and</strong> beyond it still more <strong>and</strong> still brighter appears.<br />

It is a world quite o<strong>the</strong>r than that which <strong>the</strong> retiring<br />

Son <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> retired Nazareth-home had ever seen,<br />

could ever have imagined, that opens its enlarging<br />

wonders. To us in <strong>the</strong> circumstances <strong>the</strong><br />

temptation, which at first sight seems, so to speak,<br />

<strong>the</strong> clumsiest, would have been well nigh<br />

irresistible. In measure as our intellect was<br />

enlarged, our heart attuned to this world-melody,<br />

we would have gazed with bewitched wonderment<br />

on that sight, surrendered ourselves to <strong>the</strong> harmony<br />

<strong>of</strong> those sounds, <strong>and</strong> quenched <strong>the</strong> thirst <strong>of</strong> our soul<br />

with maddening draught. But passingly sublime as<br />

it must have appeared to <strong>the</strong> Perfect Man, <strong>the</strong> God-<br />

Man—<strong>and</strong> to Him far more than to us from His<br />

infinitely deeper appreciation <strong>of</strong>, <strong>and</strong> wider<br />

sympathy with <strong>the</strong> good, <strong>the</strong> true, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> beautiful<br />

—He had already overcome. It was, indeed, not *<br />

worship,' but homage which <strong>the</strong> Evil One claimed<br />

from <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> that on <strong>the</strong> truly stated <strong>and</strong><br />

apparently rational ground, that, in its present state,<br />

all this world * was delivered' unto him, <strong>and</strong> he

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