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

of their faith, to speak, if there were in them a
word of comforting exhortation for the people.**
We can scarcely *A6yoi««< doubt, considering the
state of things, that this often bore on ^ the wpot ror
consolation of Israel.' But, indeed, all that came
from Jerusalem, all Acte'xm. that helped them to
realise their living connection with it, or bound it
more closely, was precious. * Letters out of
Judaea,' the tidings which some one might bring on
his return from festive pilgrimage or business
journey, especially about anything connected with
that grand exjjectation—the star which was to rise
on the Eastern sky—would soon spread, till the
Jewish pedlar in his wanderings had carried the
news to the most distant and isolated Jewish home,
where he might find a Sabbath-welcome and
Sabbath-rest.
' The*GereyhaShaar,*pTOBe[yteaofthe gate, a
designation which some have derived from the
drcnmstance that Gentiles were not allowed to
advance beyond the Temple Court, but more likely
to be traced to such pasnages as Ex. zx. 10; Deut