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

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efer <strong>the</strong> reader to <strong>the</strong> admirable remarks <strong>of</strong> Canon<br />

Wettcottf Introduction to <strong>the</strong> Study <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gospels,<br />

pp. 280 &c.<br />

* According to <strong>the</strong> t^st reading, <strong>and</strong> literally, 'This<br />

did—beginning <strong>of</strong> signs —<strong>Jesus</strong> in Cana.* Upon a<br />

careful review <strong>the</strong> Rabbinic expression SiTnana<br />

(taken from <strong>the</strong> Greek word here used) would<br />

seem to me more fully to render <strong>the</strong> idea than <strong>the</strong><br />

Hebrew 0th. But <strong>the</strong> significant use <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> word<br />

si^n should be well marked. See Canon West<strong>of</strong>tt<br />

on <strong>the</strong><br />

passage.<br />

" In this, <strong>the</strong> first <strong>of</strong> His miracles, it was all <strong>the</strong><br />

more necessary that He shoold manifest His glory.<br />

* Thus Schenkcl regards Ohrist's answer to Mary<br />

as a pro<strong>of</strong> that He was not on good terms with His<br />

family; PaulvM suggests, that <strong>Jesus</strong> had brought <strong>the</strong><br />

wine, <strong>and</strong> that it was afterwards -mixed with <strong>the</strong><br />

water in <strong>the</strong> stone-vessels; Ofrorer, that Mary had

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