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

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proclaimed ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong> a higher than <strong>the</strong> God <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Old Testament—in short, evidence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Gnostic taint <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth GospeL<br />

* Meyer weU reminds us that' physical<br />

incomprehensibility is not identical with al»olute<br />

impossibility.'<br />

* Qodet has scarcely rightly .marked <strong>the</strong><br />

difference.<br />

* If I rightly underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> meaning <strong>of</strong> Dr. Ahbatf*<br />

remarks on <strong>the</strong> miracles in <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel<br />

(Encycl. Britan. voL X. p. S25 (), <strong>the</strong>y imply that<br />

<strong>the</strong> change <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> water into wine was an<br />

emblematic reference to <strong>the</strong> Eucharistic wine, this<br />

view being supported by a reference to 1 John V.<br />

1. But could this be considered sufficient ground<br />

for <strong>the</strong> inference, that no historic r^gJity attaches to<br />

<strong>the</strong> whole history 7 In that case it would have to be<br />

seriously maintained, that an Ephesian writer at <strong>the</strong><br />

end <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> second centuiy had invented <strong>the</strong> fiction

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