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

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' <strong>The</strong> practice <strong>of</strong> beginning prayers before, <strong>and</strong><br />

ending <strong>the</strong>m as <strong>the</strong> sun had just risen, seems to<br />

have passed from <strong>the</strong> Bssenes to a party in <strong>the</strong><br />

Synagogue itself, <strong>and</strong> is pointedly alluded teas a<br />

chaiacter-Istic <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> so-called Vethiltin, Ber. d b;<br />

261; 26a. But ano<strong>the</strong>r peculiarity about Hiem,<br />

noticed in Sh. haSL 32 b (<strong>the</strong> repo-tition <strong>of</strong> aU <strong>the</strong><br />

verses in <strong>the</strong> PenUiteuch oontaiaio^ tbo I090ld 9t<br />

Qod iaUie so-<br />

called Malkhiycth^ZikltTOftflth^ajad.Shoph' roth),<br />

shows that <strong>the</strong>y were not Essenei^ 8iiice such<br />

Babbiuic practices must havo been alien to <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

system.<br />

* In Sauh. 100 ^ <strong>the</strong>y are explained as ' <strong>the</strong> writings<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sadducees,* <strong>and</strong> by ano<strong>the</strong>r Kabbi as ' <strong>the</strong><br />

Book <strong>of</strong> Siiach' (Koclus. in <strong>the</strong> Apocrypha).<br />

JESamburf£r» as sometimes, makes assertioas on<br />

tl«is<br />

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