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

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Rabbi OamalieVs pro<strong>of</strong> was taken from Deut. i.<br />

8: * Which Jehovah sware unto your fa<strong>the</strong>rs to give<br />

unto <strong>the</strong>m.' It is not said ' unto you,* but * unto<br />

th&n,* which implies <strong>the</strong> resurrection <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dead.<br />

<strong>The</strong> argument is kindred in character, but far<br />

inferior in solemnity <strong>and</strong> weight, to that employed<br />

by our Lord, St. Matt. zxii. 82, &om which it is<br />

evidently taken. (See book v. ch. iv., <strong>the</strong> remarks<br />

on that passage.)<br />

* It is a cario<strong>of</strong>t circumstance in ix>n-<br />

nection with <strong>the</strong> question <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Saddu-cees, that it<br />

raised ano<strong>the</strong>r point in controversy between <strong>the</strong><br />

Pharisees <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> * Samaritans,* or, as I would<br />

read it, <strong>the</strong> Sadducees, since *<strong>the</strong> Samaritans*<br />

(Sad-ducees ?) only allowed marriage with <strong>the</strong><br />

betro<strong>the</strong>d^ not <strong>the</strong> actually wedded wife <strong>of</strong> a<br />

deceased childless bro<strong>the</strong>r (Jer. Yebam. i. 6, p. 3<br />

a). <strong>The</strong> Sadducees in <strong>the</strong> Gospel argue on <strong>the</strong><br />

Pharisaic <strong>the</strong>ory, apparently for <strong>the</strong> tw<strong>of</strong>old object<br />

<strong>of</strong> casting ridicule on <strong>the</strong> doctrine <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Resurrection, <strong>and</strong> on <strong>the</strong> Pharisaic practice <strong>of</strong>

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