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

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most probaUy by <strong>the</strong> Sanhedrists, should have<br />

beeii entrusted exclusively to <strong>the</strong> Pharisaic party.<br />

It would in no way have interested <strong>the</strong> Sadduoees;<br />

<strong>and</strong> what members <strong>of</strong> that party had seen <strong>of</strong> John ^<br />

must have convinced <strong>the</strong>m that his views <strong>and</strong> aims<br />

lay entirely beyond <strong>the</strong>ir horizon.<br />

<strong>The</strong> origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two great parties <strong>of</strong> Pharisees<br />

<strong>and</strong> Sadduoees has ab'eady been traced.^ <strong>The</strong>y<br />

mark, not sects, but mental directions, such as in<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir principles are natural <strong>and</strong> universal, <strong>and</strong>,<br />

indeed, appear in connection with all<br />

metaphysical* questions. <strong>The</strong>y are <strong>the</strong> different<br />

modes in which <strong>the</strong> human mind views<br />

supersensuous problems, <strong>and</strong> which afterwards,<br />

when one-sidedly followed out, harden into<br />

diverging schools <strong>of</strong> thought. If Pharisees <strong>and</strong><br />

Sadduoees were not * sects' in <strong>the</strong> sense <strong>of</strong><br />

separation from <strong>the</strong> unity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish<br />

ecclesiastical community, nei<strong>the</strong>r were <strong>the</strong>irs *<br />

heresies' in <strong>the</strong> conventional, but only in <strong>the</strong><br />

original sense <strong>of</strong> tendency, direction, or, at most,<br />

views, differing from those commonly

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