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

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our Lord in St. Luke xvii. 18.<br />

In general it may be said that, while on certain<br />

points Jewish opinion remained always <strong>the</strong> same,<br />

<strong>the</strong> judgment passed on <strong>the</strong> Samaritans, <strong>and</strong><br />

especially as to intercourse with <strong>the</strong>m, varied,<br />

acoord-irig as <strong>the</strong>y showed more or less active<br />

hostility towards <strong>the</strong> Jews. Thus <strong>the</strong> Son <strong>of</strong> Sirach<br />

would correctly express <strong>the</strong> feeling <strong>of</strong> contempt<br />

<strong>and</strong> dislike, when he characterised <strong>the</strong> Samaritans<br />

as Hhe •SogM. 1. foolish people' which his * heart<br />

abhorred.' * <strong>The</strong> same sentiment appears in early<br />

Christian Pseudepigraphic <strong>and</strong> in Rabbinic<br />

writings. In <strong>the</strong> so-called * Testament <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Twelve Patriarchs' (which probably dates from <strong>the</strong><br />

beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> second century), ' Sichem * jb <strong>the</strong><br />

L^TiL ^^*y ^^ Fools, derided by all men.^ It was<br />

only natural, that Jews should be forbidden to<br />

respond by an Amen to <strong>the</strong> benediction <strong>of</strong><br />

Samaritans, at any rate till <strong>the</strong>y were sure it had<br />

been correctly •B«r.TiiL8 spoken,® since <strong>the</strong>y<br />

were nei<strong>the</strong>r in practice nor in <strong>the</strong>ory regarded<br />

^sheq. L» as co-religiouists.* * Yet <strong>the</strong>y were not

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