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

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26a. Jew. W. L18.8.<br />

* Philo ad Oaj.<br />

FRS-ElflNENCfE OF TKB BABTLONIANB.<br />

Syrian monardiB (<strong>the</strong> SelenoideB)—^were indeed<br />

pre-eminently <strong>the</strong> Oolah^ or < dispersion.' To <strong>the</strong>m<br />

<strong>the</strong> Sanhedrin in Jerusalem intimated by firefiignals<br />

from moontain-'top to mountain-top <strong>the</strong><br />

com** menoement <strong>of</strong> each month for <strong>the</strong> regulation<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> festive calendar,' eren as <strong>the</strong>y afterwards<br />

despatched messengers into Syria for <strong>the</strong> wme<br />

purpose.* In some respects <strong>the</strong> Eastern dispersion<br />

was placed on <strong>the</strong> same footing; in o<strong>the</strong>rs, on even<br />

a higher level than <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>iv country. Ti<strong>the</strong>s <strong>and</strong><br />

Terumoth, or first^ruits in a prepared condition,*<br />

vera due from ihen^ while <strong>the</strong> ^iibburifTi^ or firstfr^<br />

were to be brought from Syria to Jerusalem.<br />

Unlike <strong>the</strong> hea<strong>the</strong>n countries, whose very dust<br />

defiled, <strong>the</strong> soil <strong>of</strong> Syria was declared clean, like

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