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

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ebuked ^ ^ <strong>the</strong> demon' in <strong>the</strong> Synagogue, <strong>and</strong> for<br />

<strong>the</strong> same reason, since all disease, in <strong>the</strong> view <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Divine Healer, is <strong>the</strong> outcome <strong>of</strong> sin. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

lifting her by <strong>the</strong> h<strong>and</strong>, she rose up, healed, to<br />

^minister' unto <strong>the</strong>m. It was <strong>the</strong> first Didconate* <strong>of</strong><br />

woman in <strong>the</strong> Church—^might we not almost say,<br />

in <strong>the</strong> world ?—a Diaconate to Christ, <strong>and</strong> to those<br />

that were His; <strong>the</strong> Diaconate <strong>of</strong> one healed by<br />

Christ; a Diaconate immediately following such<br />

healing. <strong>The</strong> first, this, <strong>of</strong> a long course <strong>of</strong> woman's<br />

Diaconate to Christ, in which, for <strong>the</strong> first time^<br />

woman attained her true position. And what a<br />

Sabbath-meal it must have been, after that scene in<br />

<strong>the</strong> Synagogue <strong>and</strong> after that healing in <strong>the</strong> house,<br />

when <strong>Jesus</strong> was <strong>the</strong> Guest, <strong>the</strong>y who had witnessed<br />

it all sat at meat with Him, <strong>and</strong> she who had been<br />

healed was <strong>the</strong> Dedconess. Would that such were<br />

ever our Christian festive meals!<br />

It was evening. <strong>The</strong> sun was setting, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Sabbath past. All that day it had been told from<br />

home to home what had been done in <strong>the</strong><br />

Synagogue; it had been whispered what had taken

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