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

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connection with it, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> rising power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Gentiles, but concluded with <strong>the</strong> precious comfort<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> assurance, in Jer. xxx. 11, <strong>of</strong> Israel's final<br />

restoration.^ Naihwnael (<strong>The</strong>odore, Hhe gift <strong>of</strong><br />

God,*) had, as we ^^TancbiunA <strong>of</strong>ten read <strong>of</strong><br />

Rabbis,^ rested for prayer, meditation, or study, in<br />

Sie, ef**" <strong>the</strong> shadow <strong>of</strong> that widenspreading tree<br />

so common in Palestine, <strong>the</strong> p.M^a.6 fig-tree.' <strong>The</strong><br />

approaching Passover-season, perhaps mingling<br />

with tbooghts <strong>of</strong> John's announcement by <strong>the</strong> banks<br />

<strong>of</strong> Jordan, would naturally suggest <strong>the</strong> great<br />

deliverance <strong>of</strong> Israel in '<strong>the</strong> age to oome;'® all <strong>the</strong><br />

more, perhaps, irom <strong>the</strong> painful contrast in <strong>the</strong><br />

'Soin present. Such a verse as that with which, in a<br />

well-known Rabbinic work,' <strong>the</strong> meditation for <strong>the</strong><br />

New Moon <strong>of</strong> Nisan, <strong>the</strong> Passover-

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