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

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misapprehensive question <strong>of</strong> ^" His Mo<strong>the</strong>r : *<br />

Wist ye not that I must be about My Fa<strong>the</strong>r's<br />

business ?' <strong>and</strong> now when abcat to take in h<strong>and</strong><br />

that' business/ He tells her so again, <strong>and</strong><br />

decisiv(Jy, in reply to her misapprehensive<br />

sugges--lion. It is a truth whicli we must ever<br />

learn, <strong>and</strong> yet are ever slow to learn in our<br />

questionings <strong>and</strong> suggestings, alike as concerns<br />

His dealings with ourselves end His rule <strong>of</strong> His<br />

Church, that <strong>the</strong> highest <strong>and</strong> only true point <strong>of</strong><br />

vi/>w is' <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r's business,' not our personal<br />

relationship to Christ. This thread, <strong>the</strong>n, is taken up<br />

again at Cana in <strong>the</strong> circle <strong>of</strong> friends, as<br />

immediately afterwards in His public<br />

manifestation, in <strong>the</strong> purifying <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Temple. What<br />

He had first uttered em a Child, on His first visit to<br />

<strong>the</strong> Temple, that He manifested forth when a Man,<br />

entering on His active work—negatively, in His<br />

reply to His Mo<strong>the</strong>r; positively, in <strong>the</strong> * sign * He<br />

wrought. It all meant: * Wist ye not that I must be<br />

about My Fa<strong>the</strong>r's business ?' And, positively <strong>and</strong><br />

negatively, His first appearance in Jerusalem*<br />

•stJoiu meant just <strong>the</strong> same. For, <strong>the</strong>re is ever

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