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

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sufferer was soon made to feel <strong>the</strong> utter<br />

heartlessness <strong>of</strong> Rabbinism. To banish him outside<br />

walled towns® may have been a •KeLi.r necessity,<br />

which, perhaps, required to be enforced by <strong>the</strong><br />

threatened penalty <strong>of</strong> forty stripes save one.^<br />

Similarly, it might be a right, «Fe8.e7 even<br />

merciful, provision, that in <strong>the</strong> Synagogues lepers<br />

were to be <strong>the</strong> first to enter <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> last to leave,<br />

<strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong>y should occupy a separate<br />

compartment {MechitsaK)^ ten palms high <strong>and</strong> six<br />

feet wide.® •Neef.xUli For, fix)m <strong>the</strong> symbolism<br />

<strong>and</strong> connection between <strong>the</strong> physical <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

psychical,* <strong>the</strong> Old Testament, in its rites <strong>and</strong><br />

institutions, laid <strong>the</strong> greatest stress on 'clean <strong>and</strong><br />

unclean.' To sum it up in briefest compass, <strong>and</strong><br />

leaving out <strong>of</strong> view leprosy <strong>of</strong> clo<strong>the</strong>s or houses,^<br />

according to <strong>the</strong> Old Testament, defilement was<br />

conveyed only by <strong>the</strong> animal body, <strong>and</strong> attached to<br />

no o<strong>the</strong>r living body than that <strong>of</strong> man, nor could<br />

any o<strong>the</strong>r living body than that <strong>of</strong> man communicate<br />

defilement. <strong>The</strong> Old Testament mentioned eleven<br />

principal kinds <strong>of</strong> defilement. <strong>The</strong>se, as being<br />

capable <strong>of</strong> communicating fur<strong>the</strong>r defilement, were

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