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

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wrought. <strong>The</strong> history just quoted from <strong>the</strong> Talmud<br />

is immediately followed by ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> similar<br />

ripport, when a celebrated Rabbi accounts on this<br />

wise for his inability to do that in which Chanina<br />

had succeeded, that Chanina was like ^ a servant<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> King,' who went in <strong>and</strong> out femiliarly, <strong>and</strong><br />

so might beg favours; while he (<strong>the</strong> failing Rabbi)<br />

was ' like a lord before <strong>the</strong> King,* who would not<br />

be accorded mere fistvours, but discussed matters<br />

on a footing <strong>of</strong> equality. This pr<strong>of</strong>ane<br />

representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> relation between GJod <strong>and</strong><br />

His servants, <strong>the</strong> utterly unspiritual view <strong>of</strong> prayer<br />

which it displays, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> daring self-exaltation <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Rabbi, surely mark sufficiently an absolute<br />

contrast in spirit between <strong>the</strong> Jewish view <strong>and</strong> that<br />

which underlies <strong>the</strong> Evangelic narrative.<br />

Enough has been said to show, that <strong>the</strong> application<br />

to <strong>Jesus</strong> on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ^ royal <strong>of</strong>ficer' did not,<br />

in <strong>the</strong> peculiar circumstances, lie absolutely<br />

beyond <strong>the</strong> range <strong>of</strong> Jewish ideas. What <strong>the</strong> *<br />

court-<strong>of</strong>ficer ' exactly expected to be done, is a<br />

question secondary to that <strong>of</strong> his state <strong>of</strong>

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