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

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what <strong>the</strong> Jewish Angelology was, one can scarcely<br />

wonder that in controversy <strong>the</strong> Saddncees shonld<br />

have been led to <strong>the</strong> opposite extreme.<br />

<strong>The</strong> last dogmatic difierence between <strong>the</strong> two *<br />

sects' concerned that problem which has at all<br />

times engaged religious thinkers: man's free will<br />

<strong>and</strong> Gkxl's pre-ordination, or ra<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

compatibility. Josephus—or <strong>the</strong> reviser whom he<br />

employed—indeed, uses <strong>the</strong> piffely hea<strong>the</strong>n<br />

expression * fate ' (elfiap/Msini) ^ to designate <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> pre-ordination <strong>of</strong> God. But,<br />

properly understood, <strong>the</strong> real difierence between<br />

<strong>the</strong> Pharisees <strong>and</strong> Saddncees seems to have<br />

amounted to this: that <strong>the</strong> former accentuated God's<br />

pre-<br />

in <strong>the</strong> passage above referred to he would<br />

emendate: * Scribes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Samaritans.* <strong>The</strong><br />

passage, however, implies that <strong>the</strong>se were<br />

Sadducean SoHheSt <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong>y were both<br />

willing <strong>and</strong> able to enter into <strong>the</strong>ological<br />

controversy with <strong>the</strong>ir opponents.

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