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

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BOOK thought <strong>of</strong> Jewish magical cures as<br />

connected with those <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, m what is now<br />

related must dispel it. <strong>The</strong> Talmud gives this<br />

disease<br />

' ' precisely <strong>the</strong> same name (xm^OV «niw, Eshatha<br />

Tsemiria)^ * burning fever/ <strong>and</strong> prescribes for it a<br />

magical remedy, <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> principal part is to<br />

tie a knife wholly <strong>of</strong> iron by a braid <strong>of</strong> hair to a<br />

thombush, <strong>and</strong> to repeat on successive days Ezod.<br />

iii. 2, 3, <strong>the</strong>n ver. 4, <strong>and</strong> finally ver. 5, after which<br />

<strong>the</strong> bush is to be cut down, while a certain magical<br />

i8hibi>.67a formula is pronounced.^ How different<br />

from this, alike in its sublime simplicity <strong>and</strong> in <strong>the</strong><br />

majestic bearing <strong>of</strong> Hini Who healed, is <strong>the</strong><br />

Evangelic narrative <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> cure <strong>of</strong> Peter's mo<strong>the</strong>rin-law.<br />

To ignore, in our estimate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

trustworthiness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gk)spels, this essential<br />

contrast, would be a grave historical mistake.<br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> is ^ told' <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> sickness; He is besought for<br />

her who is stricken down. In His Presence disease<br />

<strong>and</strong> misery cannot continue. Bending over <strong>the</strong><br />

sufferer. He ' rebuked <strong>the</strong> fever,' just as He had

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