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

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love for our healing. In this teaching it is not <strong>the</strong><br />

serpent <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Man that are held side by<br />

side, though we cannot fail to see <strong>the</strong> symbolic<br />

reference <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> one to <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r, but <strong>the</strong> uplifting <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> one <strong>and</strong> ihe o<strong>the</strong>r—^<strong>the</strong> one by <strong>the</strong> sin, <strong>the</strong><br />

o<strong>the</strong>r through <strong>the</strong> ^in <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> people: both on account<br />

<strong>of</strong> it—<strong>the</strong> forthgoing <strong>of</strong> God's pardoning mercy, <strong>the</strong><br />

look <strong>of</strong> faith, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> higher recognition <strong>of</strong> God's<br />

love in it all.<br />

And so <strong>the</strong> record <strong>of</strong> this interview abruptly<br />

closes. It tells all, but no more than <strong>the</strong> Church<br />

requires to know. Of Nicodemus we shall hear<br />

again in <strong>the</strong> sequel, not needlessly, nor yet to<br />

complete<br />

xvL ( , 8tiU more clearly in <strong>the</strong> Taigum Pseudo-<br />

Jonathan on Numb. xxi. 8, 9:<br />

* He who lifted up hifl heart to <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Memra <strong>of</strong> Jehovah, lived; * <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong> Jerusalem<br />

Targ^im on <strong>the</strong> passage:

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