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

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will <strong>of</strong> man was (^Antzriu<br />

• . IS<br />

destitute <strong>of</strong> spontaneous activity, <strong>and</strong> speaks<br />

somewhat confusedly— for he is by no means a<br />

good reasoner—<strong>of</strong> * a mixture' <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Divine <strong>and</strong><br />

human elements, in which <strong>the</strong> human will, with its<br />

sequence <strong>of</strong> virtue or wickedness, is subject to <strong>the</strong><br />

will <strong>of</strong> fate. A yet fur<strong>the</strong>r modification <strong>of</strong> this<br />

statement occurs in ano<strong>the</strong>r place,® where we are<br />

• Ant zia told that, according to <strong>the</strong> Pharisees,<br />

some things depended upon fate, <strong>and</strong> more on man<br />

himself. Manifestly, <strong>the</strong>re is not a very wide<br />

difference between this <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> fundamental<br />

principle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sadducees in what we may<br />

suppose its primitive form.<br />

But something more will have to be said as<br />

illustrative <strong>of</strong> Pharisaic teaching on this subject.<br />

No one who has entered into <strong>the</strong> spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Old<br />

Testament can doubt that its outcome was faith, in<br />

its tw<strong>of</strong>old aspect <strong>of</strong> acknowledgment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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