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

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juxtaposition <strong>of</strong> two propositions equally true, but<br />

incapable <strong>of</strong> metaphysical combination, as are<br />

most things in which <strong>the</strong> empirically cognisable<br />

<strong>and</strong> uncognisable are joined toge<strong>the</strong>r, we are<br />

content to leare <strong>the</strong> matter.<br />

<strong>The</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r difierences between <strong>the</strong> Pharisees <strong>and</strong><br />

Sadducees can be easily <strong>and</strong> briefly summed up.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y concern ceremonial, ritual, <strong>and</strong> juridical<br />

questions. In regard to <strong>the</strong> first, <strong>the</strong> opposition <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Sadducees to <strong>the</strong> excessive scruples <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Pharisees on <strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> Levitical defilements<br />

led to frequent controversy. Four points in dispute<br />

are mentioned, <strong>of</strong> which, however, three read more<br />

like ironical comments than serious divergences.<br />

Thus, <strong>the</strong> Sadducees taunted <strong>the</strong>ir opponents with<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir many lustrations, including that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Grolden C<strong>and</strong>lestick in <strong>the</strong> Temple.^ Two o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

similar instances f/"'-?^-<br />

. . . UL 8; Tot.<br />

are mentioned.* By way <strong>of</strong> guarding against <strong>the</strong>

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