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

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to <strong>the</strong> next, so producing a diGEerent meaning, or<br />

giving a new interpretation to a text. Perhaps <strong>the</strong><br />

strangest method was that <strong>of</strong> introducing GIreek<br />

words <strong>and</strong> expressions ^inBer. into <strong>the</strong> Hebrew,<br />

<strong>and</strong> this not only to give a witty repartee,** bat in<br />

illustration <strong>of</strong> Scripture.* Nay, many instances<br />

occur, in which a Hebrew word is, from <strong>the</strong><br />

similarity <strong>of</strong> its sound with <strong>the</strong> Ghreek, retidered<br />

as if it were actually Greek, <strong>and</strong> thus a new<br />

meaning isgivra to a passage.'<br />

If such licence was taken, it seems a comparatively<br />

small thing that a doctrine was derived from a<br />

word, a particle, or even a letter. But, as already<br />

stated, <strong>the</strong> great point was to attract <strong>the</strong> hearers.<br />

Parables, stories, allegories, witticisms, strange<br />

<strong>and</strong> foreign words, absurd legends, in short,<br />

anything that might startle an audience, was<br />

introduced.^ Sometimes a discourse was entirely<br />

Haggadic; at<br />

' Even <strong>the</strong> celebrated B. Eliezer had meaning, thou<br />

art <strong>the</strong> burnt-<strong>of</strong>fering.'

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