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

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6, <strong>and</strong> clearly implied in xviii. 1. 3,4, <strong>and</strong> renders<br />

* <strong>the</strong> perfect manner' (Acts xxii<br />

War ii. 8. 14. 3). CJomp. also Acts xxvi 6: corjk<br />

tV<br />

• M. Derenbourg (Hist, de la Palest., ijcpifitar^v<br />

lOp^ciw. p. 122, note) rightly remarks, that <strong>the</strong><br />

asserts, is one <strong>of</strong> those bold mis-statements with<br />

which he has too CHAP, <strong>of</strong>ten to be credited. His<br />

vindication <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir special reverence for II age<br />

<strong>and</strong> authority* must refer to <strong>the</strong> honours paid by <strong>the</strong><br />

party to ^[ *~^ ' <strong>the</strong> Elders,' not to <strong>the</strong> old. And that<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was sufficient ground i* > for Sadducean<br />

opposition to Pharisaic traditionalism, alike in<br />

principle <strong>and</strong> in practice, will appear firom <strong>the</strong><br />

following quotation, to which we add, by way <strong>of</strong><br />

explanation, that <strong>the</strong> wearing <strong>of</strong> phylacteries was<br />

deemed by that party <strong>of</strong> Scriptural obligation, <strong>and</strong><br />

that <strong>the</strong> phylactery for <strong>the</strong> head was to consist<br />

(according to tradition) <strong>of</strong> four compartments. '<br />

Against <strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scribes is more

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