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

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Whom all matter <strong>and</strong> spirit lives, Whose world is<br />

one in design, workmanship, <strong>and</strong> purpose. And so<br />

nature was but <strong>the</strong> echo <strong>of</strong> God's heard Voice,<br />

which ever, to all <strong>and</strong> in all, s^)eaks <strong>the</strong> same, if<br />

<strong>the</strong>re be but listening ears. And so He would have<br />

it speak to men in parables, that, to <strong>the</strong>m who see,<br />

it might be <strong>the</strong> Jacob's ladder leading firom earth<br />

to heaven, while <strong>the</strong>y, whose sight <strong>and</strong> hearing are<br />

bound in <strong>the</strong> sleep <strong>of</strong> heart-hardening, would see<br />

but not perceive, <strong>and</strong> hear but not underst<strong>and</strong>.<br />

It was with <strong>the</strong> ignorant woman <strong>of</strong> Sychar, as it had<br />

been with <strong>the</strong> learned ^ Master in Israel.' As<br />

Nicodemus had seen, <strong>and</strong> yet not seen, so this<br />

Samaritaness. In <strong>the</strong> birth <strong>of</strong> which <strong>Jesus</strong> spoke, he<br />

had failed to apprehend <strong>the</strong> * from above' <strong>and</strong> * <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Spirit;' she now <strong>the</strong> thought suggested by <strong>the</strong><br />

contrast between <strong>the</strong> cistern in <strong>the</strong> lime-rock <strong>and</strong><br />

thfe well <strong>of</strong> living water. <strong>The</strong> ' How can <strong>the</strong>se<br />

things be ?' <strong>of</strong> Nicodemus finds its parallel in <strong>the</strong><br />

bewilderment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> woman. <strong>Jesus</strong> had nothing<br />

wherewith to draw from <strong>the</strong> deep well. Whence,<br />

4hen, <strong>the</strong> * living water' ? To outward appearance

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