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

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old Rationalists-^-which Strauss had already so<br />

fully refuted ^—that <strong>the</strong> poor sufferer only asked <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>Jesus</strong> to decla/rey not to make, him clean.^ In truth,<br />

<strong>the</strong> possibility <strong>of</strong> any cure through human agency<br />

was never contemplated by <strong>the</strong> Jews. Josefphus<br />

speaks <strong>of</strong> it as possibly granted to prayer,® but in<br />

a manner betokening a pious phraseology without<br />

serious meaning. We may go fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>and</strong> say that<br />

not only did Rabbinism never suggest <strong>the</strong> cure <strong>of</strong> a<br />

leper, but that its treatment <strong>of</strong> those sufferers<br />

presents <strong>the</strong> most marked contrast to that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Saviour. And yet, as if<br />

Beobt, Tol. iT.i>.lM<br />

Ant ill.<br />

' <strong>The</strong>y were not aUowed to hold inter-conise with<br />

persons under o<strong>the</strong>r defilement than leprosy, Pes.<br />

67 a.<br />

' <strong>The</strong>se were considered as waUed since <strong>the</strong> time<br />

<strong>of</strong> Joshna, EeL i. 7, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir sanctity equal to that

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