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

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have His <strong>Messiah</strong>- CBAV. ship ever proclaimed.<br />

Such testimony was wholly unfitting <strong>and</strong><br />

incongruous; it would have been a strange discord<br />

on <strong>the</strong> witness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Voice Which<br />

had proclaimed Him from heaven. And, truly, had<br />

it been admitted, it would have strangely jarred in<br />

a <strong>Life</strong> which needed not, aild asked not even <strong>the</strong><br />

witness <strong>of</strong> men, but appealed straightway to God<br />

Himself. Nor can we fail to perceive how, had it<br />

been allowed, it would have given a true ground to<br />

what <strong>the</strong> Pharisees sought to assign as <strong>the</strong><br />

interpretation <strong>of</strong> His Power that by <strong>the</strong> Prince <strong>of</strong><br />

Demons He cast out demons. And thus <strong>the</strong>re is here<br />

also deep accord with <strong>the</strong> fundamental idea which<br />

was <strong>the</strong> outcome <strong>of</strong> His Temptation : that not <strong>the</strong><br />

seemingly shortest, but <strong>the</strong> Divine way must lead<br />

Him to <strong>the</strong> goal, <strong>and</strong> that goal not Royal<br />

proclamation, but <strong>the</strong> Resurrection.<br />

<strong>The</strong> same power which gagged <strong>the</strong> confession also<br />

bade <strong>the</strong> demon relinquish his prey. One wild<br />

paroxysm—<strong>and</strong> thcT sufferer was for ever free.<br />

But on <strong>the</strong>m all who saw <strong>and</strong> heard it fell <strong>the</strong> utter

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