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

preeenoe and onstomB!'
Sixty years later the Greek geographer and
historian Strabo bears the like witness to their
presence in every land, but in language that shows
how trae had been the complaint of the Sibyl.^ The
reasons for this state of feeling will by-and-by
appear. Suffice it for the present that, all
unconscioosly, Philo tells its deepest ground, and
that of Israel's loneliness in the heathen world,
when speaking, like the others, of his countrymen
as in ' all the cities of Europe, in the provinces of
Asia and in the islands,' he describes them as,
wherever sojourning, having but one metropolis—
not Alexandria, Antioch, or Home—but ' the Holy
City with its Temple, dedicated to the Most High
QodJ ^ A nation, the vast majority of which was
dispersed over the whole inhabited earth, had
ceased to be a special, and become a worldnation.^
Yet its heart beat in Jerusalem, and thence
the life-blood passed to its most distant members.
And this, indeed, if we rightly understand it, was
the grand object of the ^ Jewish dispersion'