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

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countryman would be equal to <strong>the</strong> occasion, <strong>and</strong> do<br />

in His own city what <strong>the</strong>y had heard had been done<br />

for Capernaum. To any ordinary ' man <strong>the</strong> return to<br />

Nazareth in such circumstances must have been an<br />

ordeal. Not so to <strong>the</strong> Christ, Who, in utter selfforgetfulness,<br />

had only this one aim <strong>of</strong> life—to do<br />

<strong>the</strong> Will <strong>of</strong> Him that sent Him. And so His bearing<br />

that day in <strong>the</strong> Synagogue is itself evidence, that<br />

while in, He was not <strong>of</strong>, that time.<br />

Realising <strong>the</strong> scene on such occasions, we mark<br />

<strong>the</strong> contrast. As <strong>the</strong>re could be no un-Jewish<br />

forwardness on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong> Jesns, so, assuredly,<br />

would <strong>the</strong>re be none <strong>of</strong> that mock-humility <strong>of</strong><br />

reluctance to <strong>of</strong>ficiate, in which Babbinism<br />

delighted. If, aa in <strong>the</strong> circumstances seems likely,<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> commenced <strong>the</strong> first part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> service, <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong>n pronoimced before <strong>the</strong> * Ark' those Eulogies

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