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

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This also explains how <strong>the</strong> greatest <strong>of</strong> those bom<br />

<strong>of</strong> women was also <strong>the</strong> most humble, <strong>the</strong> most<br />

retiring, <strong>and</strong> self-forgetfol. In a picture such as that<br />

which filled his whole vision, <strong>the</strong>re was no room<br />

for self. By <strong>the</strong> side <strong>of</strong> such a Figure all else<br />

appeared in its real littleness, <strong>and</strong>, indeed, seemed<br />

at best but as shadows cast by its light. All <strong>the</strong><br />

more would <strong>the</strong> bare suggestion on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Jerusalem deputation, that he might be <strong>the</strong> Christ,<br />

seem like a blasphemy, from which, in utter selfabasement,<br />

he would seek shelter in <strong>the</strong> scarceventured<br />

claim to <strong>the</strong> meanest <strong>of</strong>iSce which a slave<br />

could discharge. He was not Elijah. Even <strong>the</strong> fact<br />

that <strong>Jesus</strong> afterwards, in significant language,<br />

pointed to <strong>the</strong> possibility <strong>of</strong> his becoming such to<br />

Israel (St. Matt. xi.. 14), proves that he claimed it<br />

not; * not' that prophet'; not even a prophet. He<br />

pr<strong>of</strong>essed not visions, revelations, special<br />

messages. All else was absorbed in <strong>the</strong> great fact:<br />

he was only <strong>the</strong> voice <strong>of</strong> one that cried, * Prepare<br />

ye <strong>the</strong> way!' Viewed especially in <strong>the</strong> light <strong>of</strong> those<br />

self-glorious times, this reads not like a fictitious<br />

account <strong>of</strong> a fictitious mission; nor was such <strong>the</strong>

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