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

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were in deadly error.<br />

* Tho references here are to StraxuSy voL i. pp.<br />

510-519, <strong>and</strong> to Keim i. 1, p. 116.<br />

* Meyer, Knviment. vol. ii. p. 208, rightly remarks<br />

on <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> //wttr, HUyenfvld, Sec. According<br />

to <strong>the</strong>m, <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> this history is only a type <strong>of</strong><br />

hea<strong>the</strong>nism as receptive to faith, iu contrast to<br />

Nicodemos, <strong>the</strong> type <strong>of</strong> Jadaism<br />

shutting itself up against faith. Bat in that case why<br />

make <strong>the</strong> principal person a Samaritan, <strong>and</strong> not a<br />

hea<strong>the</strong>n, <strong>and</strong> why attribute to her belief in a<br />

<strong>Messiah</strong>, which was entirely foreign to hea<strong>the</strong>nism<br />

?<br />

• Curiously enough, several instances are related<br />

in Babbinic writings in which Sianaiitans enter<br />

into dii^ute with<br />

THE WORSHIP IN SPIRIT AND IN TROTH.<br />

417

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