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

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<strong>The</strong>ir * priests' were <strong>the</strong>ir bakers <strong>and</strong> presidents;<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir sacrifices those <strong>of</strong> fellowship, <strong>the</strong>ir sacred<br />

meals <strong>of</strong> purity. It is quite in accordance with this<br />

tendency when we learn from Philo that, in <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

diligent study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scriptures, <strong>the</strong>y chiefly<br />

adopted <strong>the</strong> allegorical mode <strong>of</strong> interpretation.*<br />

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BOOK We can scarcely wonder that such Jews as<br />

Josephns <strong>and</strong> Philo,<br />

m <strong>and</strong> snch hea<strong>the</strong>ns as Pliny, were attracted by<br />

sach an unworldly ^■^ ' <strong>and</strong> l<strong>of</strong>ty sect. Here were<br />

about 4,000 men, who deliberately separated<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves, not only from all that made life<br />

pleasant, but from all around ; who, afler passing a<br />

long <strong>and</strong> strict novitiate^ were content to live<br />

under <strong>the</strong> most rigid rule, obedient to <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

superiors; who gave up all <strong>the</strong>ir possessions, as<br />

well as <strong>the</strong> earnings <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir daily toil in <strong>the</strong> fields,<br />

or <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir simple trades; who held all things for<br />

<strong>the</strong> common benefit, entertained strangers, nursed<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir sick, <strong>and</strong> tended <strong>the</strong>ir aged as if <strong>the</strong>ir own

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