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

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In his announcement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom, in his call ixt<br />

to inward repentance, even in his symbolic<br />

Baptism, that Great •^*"*' Personality always<br />

stood out before <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> John, as <strong>the</strong> One allovertopping<br />

<strong>and</strong> overshadowing Figure in <strong>the</strong><br />

background. It was <strong>the</strong> Isaiah-picture <strong>of</strong> * <strong>the</strong> King<br />

in His beauty,* <strong>the</strong> vision <strong>of</strong> * <strong>the</strong><br />

> This is insisted upon by Keim, in his beaatiful<br />

sketch <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist. Woald that he had known <strong>the</strong><br />

Master in <strong>the</strong> glorj <strong>of</strong> His Divinity, as he understo^<br />

<strong>the</strong> Forerunner in <strong>the</strong> beauty <strong>of</strong> his humanity I To<br />

show how <strong>the</strong> whole teaching <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist was,<br />

so to speak, saturated with Isaiah-language <strong>and</strong><br />

thoughts, comp. not only Is. xl. 3, as <strong>the</strong> burden <strong>of</strong><br />

his mission, but as to^ his imagery (after Xeim) :<br />

Oeneratiun qf viperSt Is. liz. 5; planting <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Lord, Is. V. 7; trees, vi. 13; x. 15, 18, 33;<br />

±L2^;fire, i 31; iz. 18; z. 17; ▼. 24;<br />

VOL. I.<br />

zlvii. li; floor <strong>and</strong> fa/a, zzi. 10; zxviii. 27 &c.; xzx.

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