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

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<strong>the</strong> world. But it is not necessary to suppose that<br />

<strong>the</strong> Baptist clearly understood that manner <strong>of</strong> His<br />

Saviourship, which only long afterwards, <strong>and</strong><br />

reluctantly, came to <strong>the</strong> followers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Lamb.^<br />

That he understood <strong>the</strong> application <strong>of</strong> His ministiy<br />

to <strong>the</strong> whole world, is only what might have been<br />

expected <strong>of</strong> one taught by Isaiah; <strong>and</strong> what, indeed,<br />

in one or ano<strong>the</strong>r form, <strong>the</strong> Synagogue has always<br />

believed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Messiah</strong>. What was distinctive in<br />

<strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist, seems his view <strong>of</strong> sin as<br />

a totality, ra<strong>the</strong>r than sins: implying <strong>the</strong> removal <strong>of</strong><br />

that great barrier between God <strong>and</strong> man, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

triumph in that great contest indicated in Gen. iii.<br />

15, which Israel after <strong>the</strong> flesh failed to perceive.<br />

Nor should we omit here to notice an undesigned<br />

evidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Hebraic origin <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth<br />

Gospel; for an Ephesian Gospel, dating from <strong>the</strong><br />

close <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> second century, would not have placed<br />

in its forefront, as <strong>the</strong> first public testimony <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Baptist (if, indeed, it would have introdu(>ed him<br />

at all), a quotation from Isaiah—still less a<br />

sacrificial reference.

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