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

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In tiie elaborate code <strong>of</strong> defilements leprosy was<br />

not only one <strong>of</strong> < <strong>the</strong> fa<strong>the</strong>rs <strong>of</strong> undeanness,' bat,<br />

next to defilement from <strong>the</strong> dead, stood foremost<br />

amongst <strong>the</strong>m. Not merely actoal contact with <strong>the</strong><br />

•KtLLi-4 lopoi'} ^^^ ®^^^ ^ entrance defiled a<br />

habitation,^ <strong>and</strong> everything in »Ki» xUL i^> ^ ^^^<br />

beams <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ro<strong>of</strong>> Bat beyond this. Rabbinic<br />

harshness or ^^ fear carried its provisions to <strong>the</strong><br />

utmost sequences <strong>of</strong> an unbending<br />

logic. It is, indeed, true that, as in general so<br />

especially in this instance, Rabbinism loved to<br />

trace disease to moral causes. ^No •BbMKUu<br />

death without sin, <strong>and</strong> no pain without<br />

transgression;'^ '<strong>the</strong> sick «Ktdv.4i4i is not healed,<br />

till all his sins are forgiven hun.'^ <strong>The</strong>se are <strong>of</strong>trepeated<br />

sayings; but, when closely examined, <strong>the</strong>y<br />

are not quite so spiritual as <strong>the</strong>y sound. For, first,<br />

<strong>the</strong>y represent a reaction against <strong>the</strong> doctrine <strong>of</strong><br />

original sin, in <strong>the</strong> sense that it is not <strong>the</strong> Fall <strong>of</strong><br />

man, but one's actual transgression, to which<br />

disease <strong>and</strong> death are to PB^Ua be traced,<br />

according to <strong>the</strong> saying: ^ Not <strong>the</strong> serpent kills, but

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