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

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while <strong>the</strong>ir servants 'FM.t7a beat <strong>the</strong> people with<br />

sticks.' ^ What a comment this passage <strong>of</strong>fers on<br />

<strong>the</strong> bearing <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, as He made a scourge to<br />

drive out <strong>the</strong> very servants who * beat <strong>the</strong> people<br />

with sticks,' <strong>and</strong> upset <strong>the</strong>ir unholy traffic ! It were<br />

easy to add from Rabbinic sources repulsive<br />

details <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir luxuriousness, wastefulness,<br />

gluttony, <strong>and</strong> general dissoluteness. No wonder<br />

that, in <strong>the</strong> figurative language <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Talmud, <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple is represented as crying out against <strong>the</strong>m: '<br />

Go hence, ye sons <strong>of</strong> »Pes.n.i. Eli, ye defile <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple <strong>of</strong> Jehovah!'® <strong>The</strong>se painful notices <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

state <strong>of</strong> matters at that time help us better to<br />

underst<strong>and</strong> what Christ did, <strong>and</strong> who <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

that opposed His doing.<br />

<strong>The</strong>se Temple-Bazaars, <strong>the</strong> property, <strong>and</strong> one <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> principal sources <strong>of</strong> income, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> family <strong>of</strong><br />

Annas, were <strong>the</strong> scene <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> purification <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple by <strong>Jesus</strong> ; <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong> private locale<br />

attached to <strong>the</strong>se very Bazaars, where <strong>the</strong><br />

Sanhedrin held its meetings at <strong>the</strong> time, <strong>the</strong> final<br />

condemnation <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> may have been planned, if

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