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

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ESSENiaM.<br />

82<br />

exaggeration. Bnt <strong>of</strong> one thing we may feel certain<br />

: nei<strong>the</strong>r John <strong>the</strong> Baptist, <strong>and</strong> his Baptism, nor <strong>the</strong><br />

teaching <strong>of</strong> Christianity, had any connection with<br />

Bssenism. It were utterly nnhistorical to infer such<br />

from a few points <strong>of</strong> contact—<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>se only <strong>of</strong><br />

similarity, not identity—when <strong>the</strong> differences<br />

between <strong>the</strong>m are so ftindamentiJ. ^at an Essene<br />

would have preached repentance <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom<br />

<strong>of</strong> 3od to multitudes, baptized <strong>the</strong> uninitiated, <strong>and</strong><br />

given supreme testimony to One like <strong>Jesus</strong>, are<br />

assertions only less extravagant than this, that One<br />

Who mingled with society as <strong>Jesus</strong> did, <strong>and</strong> Whose<br />

teaching, alike in that respect, <strong>and</strong> in all its<br />

tendencies, was so utterly Non-, <strong>and</strong> even Anti-<br />

Essenic, had derived wiy part <strong>of</strong> His doctrine from<br />

Bssenism. Besides, when we remember <strong>the</strong> views

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