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

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<strong>the</strong> Baptist was cast into prison.* Accordingly, this<br />

circum-^si.Mat.t. stance is specially marked by St.<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w,^ <strong>and</strong> by St. Mark,® while •stMwk ^^*<br />

Luke, as if to give greater emphasis to it, abruptly<br />

connects this *•" beginning <strong>of</strong> Christ's sole <strong>and</strong><br />

separate Work with <strong>the</strong> history <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

J St. Lake Temptation.* All that intervened seems<br />

to him but introductory, that * beginning' which<br />

might be summed up by <strong>the</strong> words, * in <strong>the</strong> power<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Spirit,' with which he describes His return<br />

to (Jalilee. In accordance with this view, Christ is<br />

presented as taking up <strong>the</strong> • St Matt, message <strong>of</strong><br />

His Forerunner,® only with wider sweep, since,<br />

instead <strong>of</strong> adding to His announcement <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Kingdom <strong>of</strong> Heaven <strong>and</strong> call to repentance that to a<br />

Baptism <strong>of</strong> preparation, He called those who jRt.<br />

Mwk L heard Him to * believe <strong>the</strong> Gospel * which<br />

He brought <strong>the</strong>m.'<br />

But here also,—as Eusebius had already noted*—<br />

<strong>the</strong> Fourth Gospel, in its more comprehensive<br />

presentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Christ, as adding, not merely in

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