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

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pr<strong>of</strong>ession <strong>of</strong> an impostor, an associate in a plot,<br />

or an enthusiast. <strong>The</strong>re was deep reality <strong>of</strong> allengrossing<br />

conviction which underlay such selfdenial<br />

<strong>of</strong> mission.<br />

And all this must have ripened during <strong>the</strong> forty<br />

days <strong>of</strong> probably comparative solitude,* only<br />

relieved by <strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> such/disciples ' as,<br />

learning <strong>the</strong> same hope, would ga<strong>the</strong>r around him.<br />

What he had seen <strong>and</strong> what he had heard threw him<br />

back upon what he had expected <strong>and</strong> believed. It<br />

not only fulfilled, it transfigured it. Not that,<br />

probably, he always maintained <strong>the</strong> same height<br />

which he <strong>the</strong>n attained. It was not in <strong>the</strong> nature <strong>of</strong><br />

things that it should be so. We <strong>of</strong>ten attain, at <strong>the</strong><br />

outset <strong>of</strong> our climbing, a glimpse, afterwards hid<br />

from us in our laborious upward toil till <strong>the</strong><br />

supreme height is reached. Mentally <strong>and</strong> spiritually<br />

we may attain almost at a bound results, too <strong>of</strong>ten<br />

lost to us till again secured by long<br />

' I cannot agree with Mr. Cheyne f Prophecies <strong>of</strong><br />

Is. vol. i. p. 183), that <strong>the</strong>re 18 no Messianic

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