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

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<strong>of</strong> all Divine teaching. Only what carries it now to<br />

us is not <strong>the</strong> same as what carried it to <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> old<br />

: it is no more <strong>the</strong> fingerpost <strong>of</strong> ^ signs,' but <strong>the</strong><br />

finger <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Spirit. To <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> miraculous was<br />

<strong>the</strong> expected —that miraculous which to us also is<br />

so truly <strong>and</strong> Divinely miraculous, just because it<br />

applies to all time, since it carries to us <strong>the</strong> moraly<br />

as to <strong>the</strong>m <strong>the</strong> physiccdy aspect <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> miracle : in<br />

each case. Divine reality Divinely conveyed. It<br />

may <strong>the</strong>refore safely be asserted, that to <strong>the</strong> men <strong>of</strong><br />

that time no teaching <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> new faith would have<br />

been real without <strong>the</strong> evidence <strong>of</strong> miracles.<br />

In those days, when <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> miraculous<br />

was, so to speak, fluid—passing from <strong>the</strong> natural<br />

into <strong>the</strong> supernatural—<strong>and</strong> men regarded all that<br />

was above <strong>the</strong>ir view-point <strong>of</strong> nature as<br />

supernatural, <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> miraculous would, by<br />

its constant recurrence, always <strong>and</strong> prominently<br />

suggest itself. O<strong>the</strong>r teachers also, among <strong>the</strong> Jews<br />

at least, claimed <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> doing miracles, <strong>and</strong><br />

were popularly credited with <strong>the</strong>m. But what an<br />

obvious contrast between <strong>the</strong>irs <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> * signs'

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