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

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epresent <strong>the</strong>m as a philosophical sect like <strong>the</strong><br />

Stoics. <strong>The</strong> latter, indeed, he does in so many<br />

words.<br />

' For details comp. Sdmiwiyerf Real* BncykL IL<br />

pp. 103-106—though <strong>the</strong>re is some tendency to<br />

'colouring^in this as in o<strong>the</strong>r arUoles <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> wodL<br />

CEREMONIAL DIFFERENCES.<br />

819<br />

<strong>the</strong> evil impnlse in us; but He had also given <strong>the</strong><br />

remedy in <strong>the</strong> CHAP. Law.* This is parabolically<br />

represented nnder <strong>the</strong> figure <strong>of</strong> a man n seated at<br />

<strong>the</strong> parting <strong>of</strong> two ways, who warned all passers<br />

that if <strong>the</strong>y i^^^ j, chose one road it would lead<br />

<strong>the</strong>m among <strong>the</strong> thorns, while on <strong>the</strong> • o<strong>the</strong>r brief<br />

difficulties would end in a plain path Qoj),^ Or, to<br />

put JjJJjJ^JJ^ it in <strong>the</strong> language <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great Akiba<br />

^: ' Everything is foreseen; firee ^^ ^^>*<br />

determination is accorded to man; <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> world is<br />

judged in good- •▲b.iu.n ness.' With this simple

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