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

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elicited a reply so simple, 60 real, as to carry its<br />

own evidence. He is still to <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> Rabbi—^<strong>the</strong><br />

most honoured title <strong>the</strong>y can find—yet marking still<br />

<strong>the</strong> strictly Jewish view, as well as <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />

st<strong>and</strong>point <strong>of</strong> * Whai seek ye ?' <strong>The</strong>y wish, yet<br />

scarcely dare, to say what was <strong>the</strong>ir object, <strong>and</strong><br />

only put it in a form most modest, suggestive ra<strong>the</strong>r<br />

than expressive. <strong>The</strong>re IB strict correspondence to<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir view in <strong>the</strong> words <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>. <strong>The</strong>ir very<br />

Hebraism <strong>of</strong> * Rabbi' is met by <strong>the</strong> equally<br />

Hebraic * Come <strong>and</strong> see ;' * <strong>the</strong>ir unspoken, but<br />

half-conscious longing by what <strong>the</strong> invitation<br />

implied (according to <strong>the</strong> most probable reading, '<br />

Come <strong>and</strong> ye shall see'').<br />

It was but early morning—^ten o'clock.* What<br />

passed on that long Sabbath-day we know not,<br />

save from what happened in its<br />

/<br />

' <strong>The</strong> word implies earnest, penetrating gase.

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