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

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which were <strong>the</strong> types <strong>of</strong> all outward actuality, was<br />

Platonism! Broken rays in <strong>the</strong>m^ but <strong>the</strong> focus <strong>of</strong><br />

truth in <strong>the</strong> Scriptures. Yet <strong>the</strong>se were rays, <strong>and</strong><br />

could only have come from <strong>the</strong> Sun. All truth was<br />

<strong>of</strong> God ; hence <strong>the</strong>irs must have been <strong>of</strong> that origin.<br />

<strong>The</strong>n were <strong>the</strong> sages <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> hea<strong>the</strong>n also in a -sense<br />

God-taught—<strong>and</strong> God-teaching, or inspiration,<br />

was ra<strong>the</strong>r a question <strong>of</strong> degree than <strong>of</strong> kind!<br />

One step only remained; <strong>and</strong> that, as we imagine, if<br />

not <strong>the</strong> easiest, yet, as we reflect upon it, that<br />

which in practice would be most readily taken. It<br />

was simply to advance towards Grecianism;<br />

frankly to recognise truth in <strong>the</strong> results <strong>of</strong> Greek<br />

thought. <strong>The</strong>re is that within us, name it mental<br />

consciousness, or as you will, which, all unbidden,<br />

rises to answer to <strong>the</strong> voice <strong>of</strong> intellectual truth,<br />

come whence it may, just as conscience answers to<br />

<strong>the</strong> calls <strong>of</strong> moral truth or duty. But in this case<br />

<strong>the</strong>re was more. <strong>The</strong>re was <strong>the</strong> mighty spell which<br />

Greek philosophy exercised on all kindred minds,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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