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

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only * sign' which He did give <strong>the</strong>m—we see<br />

nothing incompatible with it in <strong>the</strong> fact that, at <strong>the</strong><br />

BOOK same feast, He did many ^ signs' * in sight<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people. For it was ni only <strong>the</strong> rulers who<br />

had entered on that conflict, <strong>of</strong> which, from <strong>the</strong><br />

dia-^""^^ racter <strong>and</strong> aims <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two parties<br />

engaged, <strong>the</strong> beginning involTed <strong>the</strong> terrible end as<br />

its logical sequence. In presence <strong>of</strong> such a foe only<br />

one ' sign' could be given: that <strong>of</strong> reading <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

inmost hearts, <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong>ir real motives <strong>and</strong><br />

final action, <strong>and</strong> again <strong>of</strong> setting fortib His own<br />

final triumph—a predictive description, a ' no<br />

sign* that was, <strong>and</strong> is, a sign to all time. But<br />

nei<strong>the</strong>r challenge nor hostile dem<strong>and</strong> for a sign had<br />

been addressed to Him by <strong>the</strong> people. Indeed even<br />

aft <strong>the</strong> last, when incited by <strong>the</strong>ir rulers, <strong>and</strong><br />

blindly following <strong>the</strong>m, ^ <strong>the</strong>y knew not what <strong>the</strong>y<br />

did.' And it was to <strong>the</strong>m that Jeans now, on <strong>the</strong><br />

morning <strong>of</strong> His Work, spoke by * signs.'<br />

<strong>The</strong> Feast <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Passover commenced on <strong>the</strong> ISth<br />

msan, dating it, <strong>of</strong> course, from <strong>the</strong> preceding

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