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

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he should have omitted it. To us, on later<br />

development. Dr. Abbott (Encycl. <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>,<br />

<strong>the</strong> opposite seems <strong>the</strong> le-Brit., Art. 'Gospels,* p.<br />

821) regards <strong>the</strong> gitimate inference. Treating<br />

confessedly expression, * bom <strong>of</strong> water <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Baptism, it was only neoessaiy for his Spirit,' as<br />

a reference to Christian argument, which identified<br />

regeneration Biaptism, <strong>and</strong> this again as evidence<br />

for with Baptism, to introduce <strong>the</strong> reference <strong>the</strong><br />

late authorship <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel, to <strong>the</strong> Spirit.<br />

O<strong>the</strong>rwise <strong>the</strong> quotation His reasoning is, that <strong>the</strong><br />

earliest refer is so exactly that from <strong>the</strong> fourth<br />

(Gospel, ence to regeneration is contained in St.<br />

including even <strong>the</strong> objection <strong>of</strong> Nioo-Matt, xviii. 3.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n he supposes a re demus, that it is almost<br />

impossible to ference in Justin's Apologia (i. 61)<br />

to be imagine that so literal a transcription a<br />

fur<strong>the</strong>r development <strong>of</strong> this doctrine, could have<br />

originated o<strong>the</strong>rwise than from <strong>and</strong> he denies what<br />

is generally regarded <strong>the</strong> fourth Gospel itself, <strong>and</strong><br />

that it is <strong>the</strong> as Justin's quotation from St. John iii.<br />

6 result <strong>of</strong> a supposed series <strong>of</strong> develop-to be<br />

such, because it omits <strong>the</strong> word ments in which

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