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

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truths. But that needed ano<strong>the</strong>r qualification, <strong>and</strong><br />

tended in ano<strong>the</strong>r directkin from those <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong><br />

Jewish student knew. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>the</strong>re was<br />

<strong>the</strong> intellectual view <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Scriptures—^<strong>the</strong>ir<br />

philosophieal underst<strong>and</strong>ing, <strong>the</strong> application to<br />

<strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> results <strong>of</strong> Grecian thought <strong>and</strong><br />

criticism. It was this which was peculiarly<br />

Hellenistic. Apply that method, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> deeper <strong>the</strong><br />

explorer proceeded in his search, <strong>the</strong> more would<br />

he feel himself idone, fskV from <strong>the</strong> outside<br />

crowd; but <strong>the</strong> brighter also would that Ught <strong>of</strong><br />

criticism, which he carried, shine in <strong>the</strong> growing<br />

darkness, or^ as he held it up, would <strong>the</strong> precious<br />

ore, which he laid bore, glitter <strong>and</strong> sparkle with a<br />

thous<strong>and</strong> vatying hues <strong>of</strong> brilliancy. What was<br />

Jewish^ Palestinian, individual, concrete in <strong>the</strong><br />

Scriptures^ was only <strong>the</strong> outside—^true in itself,<br />

but not <strong>the</strong> truth. <strong>The</strong>re were depths beneath. Strip<br />

<strong>the</strong>se stories <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir nationalism; idealise <strong>the</strong><br />

individualism <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> persons introduced^ <strong>and</strong> you<br />

came upon abstract ideas <strong>and</strong> realities, true to all<br />

time <strong>and</strong> to all nations. But this deep symbolism<br />

was Pythagorean ; this pre-existence <strong>of</strong> ideas

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