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

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endorses <strong>the</strong> belief, that only <strong>the</strong> first who<br />

afterwards entered <strong>the</strong>m, could be healed. This<br />

was evidently <strong>the</strong> belief <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> impotent man, as <strong>of</strong><br />

all <strong>the</strong> waiting multitude.* But • st Johnti <strong>the</strong> words<br />

in verse 4 <strong>of</strong> our Authorised Version, <strong>and</strong> perhaps,<br />

also, <strong>the</strong> last clause <strong>of</strong> verse 3, are admittedly an<br />

interpolation.'<br />

In ano<strong>the</strong>r part <strong>of</strong> this book it is explained at<br />

length,' how Jewish belief at <strong>the</strong> time attached such<br />

agency to Angels, <strong>and</strong> how it localised<br />

1 Indeed, belief in * holy wells * seems cnssion in<br />

Canon WettcotCg Commentary<br />

to have been very common in ancient on St. John. I<br />

only wish I could without<br />

times. From <strong>the</strong> cuneiform inscriptions un&dmess<br />

transport to <strong>the</strong>se pages <strong>the</strong><br />

it appears to have been even entertained results <strong>of</strong><br />

his masterly criticism <strong>of</strong> thin

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