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

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* I venture to think that even Bishop hlfoot lays too<br />

much stress on <strong>the</strong><br />

nity to Pharisaism. I can discover<br />

lAeh amni<br />

few, if any, traces <strong>of</strong> Pharisaism in <strong>the</strong> distinctive<br />

sense <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> term. Even <strong>the</strong>ir frequent washings had<br />

a different object from those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pharisees.<br />

■ For a similar reason, <strong>and</strong> in order * not to affront<br />

<strong>the</strong> Divine rays <strong>of</strong> light *—^tho light as symbol, if<br />

not outcome, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Deity—^<strong>the</strong>y coverec<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves, in such circumstances, with <strong>the</strong> mantle<br />

which was <strong>the</strong>ir ordinary dress in winter.<br />

purity in <strong>the</strong> body, <strong>and</strong>, indeed, in all that is<br />

material. Henoe, also, OHAF. <strong>the</strong>ir asceticism,<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir repudiation <strong>of</strong> marriage, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir freqnent II<br />

lustrations in clean water, not only before <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

sacrificial meals, but ^ ^'^^ upon contact even with<br />

an Essene <strong>of</strong> a lower grade, <strong>and</strong> after attending to

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