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

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throughout <strong>the</strong> world.<br />

What has been said applies, perhaps, in a special<br />

manner, to <strong>the</strong> Western, ra<strong>the</strong>r than to <strong>the</strong> Eastern ^<br />

dispersion.' <strong>The</strong> connection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> latter with<br />

Palestine was so close as almost to seem one <strong>of</strong><br />

continuity. In <strong>the</strong> account <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> truly representative<br />

ga<strong>the</strong>ring in Jerusalem on that ever-memorable<br />

Feast <strong>of</strong> Weeks,* <strong>the</strong> division <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ' dispersion'<br />

into two gr<strong>and</strong> sections—<strong>the</strong> Eastern or Trans-<br />

Euphratic, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Western or Hellenist—seems<br />

clearly marked.' In this arrangement <strong>the</strong> former<br />

would include ' <strong>the</strong> Parthians, Medes, Elamites,<br />

<strong>and</strong> dwellers in Mesopotamia,' Judsaa st<strong>and</strong>ing, so<br />

to speak, in <strong>the</strong> middle, while ' <strong>the</strong> Cretes <strong>and</strong><br />

Arabians' would typically represent <strong>the</strong> far<strong>the</strong>st<br />

outrunners respectively <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Western <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> .<br />

Eastern Diaspora. <strong>The</strong> former, as we know from<br />

<strong>the</strong> New Testament,<br />

u<br />

> Comp. <strong>the</strong> remarks <strong>of</strong> Sokneei^f^ burger (Voiles.

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