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

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or that it was CHAP, utterly insignificant, till <strong>the</strong><br />

want was supplied by <strong>the</strong> pious Gentile Z<br />

centurion.* This would seem to dispose <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

question whe<strong>the</strong>r, as ,^ ' ~ is generally assumed, a<br />

Jewish community in a place, if numbering ^^ • ten<br />

heads <strong>of</strong> families, was obliged to build a<br />

Synagogue, <strong>and</strong> could enforce local taxation for <strong>the</strong><br />

purpose. Such was undoubtedly <strong>the</strong> later Rabbinic<br />

ordinance,^ but <strong>the</strong>ise is no evidence that it<br />

obtained in Palestine, or in early times.<br />

G^enerally, <strong>of</strong> course, a community would build its<br />

own Synagogue, or else depend on <strong>the</strong> charitable<br />

assistance <strong>of</strong> neighbours, or on private<br />

munificence. K this &iled, <strong>the</strong>y might meet for<br />

worship in a private dwelling, a sort <strong>of</strong> ^<br />

Synagogue in <strong>the</strong> house.'® For, in early times <strong>the</strong><br />

institution would be much more simple than at a<br />

later period. In this, as in o<strong>the</strong>r respects, we must<br />

remember that later Jewish arrangements afford no<br />

evidence <strong>of</strong> those which prevailed while <strong>the</strong><br />

Temple stood, nor yet <strong>the</strong> ordinances <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> chiefis<br />

<strong>of</strong> Babylonian Academies <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> customs existing

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