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

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which were regarded as, in tiie strictest sense, <strong>the</strong><br />

prayer (TephillaJi), we can iEnagine*--*though we<br />

can scarcely rea1ise-*-<strong>the</strong> reverent solemnity,<br />

which would seem to fpve a new meaning to each<br />

well^remembered sentence. And in Hia mouth it<br />

all had a new meaning. We cannot know what, if<br />

any, petitions He inserted, though we can imagine<br />

what <strong>the</strong>ir spirit would have been. And now, one<br />

by one, Priest, Levite, <strong>and</strong>, in successian, five<br />

Israelites, had read from <strong>the</strong> Law. <strong>The</strong>re is no<br />

reason to disturb <strong>the</strong> c^ost traditional idea, that<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> Himself read <strong>the</strong> oonduding portion from <strong>the</strong><br />

Prophets, or <strong>the</strong> so*called Haphtarak, <strong>The</strong> whole<br />

narrative seems to imply this. Similarly, it is most<br />

likely that <strong>the</strong> Haphtcurah for that day was taken<br />

from <strong>the</strong> prophecies <strong>of</strong> Isaiah,* <strong>and</strong> »Is ixL u $ that<br />

it included <strong>the</strong> passage • quoted by <strong>the</strong> Evangelist<br />

as read by <strong>the</strong> *T?*iMi?' Lord <strong>Jesus</strong>.^ We know<br />

that <strong>the</strong> * rolls' on which <strong>the</strong> Law was «Hiba B.<br />

written were distinct from those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Prophets; •<br />

<strong>and</strong> every probability points to it, that those <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Prophets, at least <strong>the</strong> Greater, were also written on<br />

separate scrolls. In this instance we are expressly

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