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

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might well be that f***" Philip had found him<br />

while still busy with such thoughts. Possibly ^ •><br />

<strong>the</strong>ir outcome, <strong>and</strong> that quite in accordance with<br />

Jewish belief at <strong>the</strong> time, may have been, that all<br />

that was needed to bring that happy ' age to come'<br />

was, that Jacob should become Israel in truth. In<br />

such case he would himself have been ripening for<br />

' <strong>the</strong> Kingdom ' that was at h<strong>and</strong>. It must have<br />

seemed a startling answer to his thoughts, this<br />

announcement, made with <strong>the</strong> freshness <strong>of</strong> new <strong>and</strong><br />

joyous conviction : * We have found Him <strong>of</strong><br />

Whom Moses in <strong>the</strong> Law, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Prophets, did<br />

write.' But this addition about <strong>the</strong> Man <strong>of</strong> Nazareth,<br />

<strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Joseph,' would appear a terrible anticlimax.<br />

It was so diiferent from anything that he<br />

had associated ei<strong>the</strong>r with <strong>the</strong> great hope <strong>of</strong> Israel,<br />

or with <strong>the</strong> Nazareth <strong>of</strong> his own neighbourhood,<br />

that his exclamation, without implying any special<br />

imputation on <strong>the</strong> little town which he knew so<br />

well, seems not only natural, but, psychologically,<br />

deeply true. <strong>The</strong>re was but one<br />

' Corroborative <strong>and</strong> illustrative pas to me, without

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