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

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'SHOW THYSELF TO THE PRIEST FOR A<br />

TESTIMONY.'<br />

497<br />

Mosaic Law in such cases.' It is scarcely<br />

necessary to refute <strong>the</strong> CHAP, notion, that in this<br />

Christ was prompted ei<strong>the</strong>r by <strong>the</strong> desire to see<br />

XV <strong>the</strong> healed man restored to <strong>the</strong> society <strong>of</strong> his<br />

fellows, or by <strong>the</strong> wish * ^<br />

k) have some <strong>of</strong>lScially recognised miracle, to<br />

which He might afterwards appeal. Not to speak <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> un-Ghristlikeness <strong>of</strong> such a wish or purpose, as<br />

a matter <strong>of</strong> fact. He did not appeal to it, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

healed leper wholly disappears fix)m <strong>the</strong> Gospelnarrative.<br />

And yet his conforming to <strong>the</strong> Mosaic<br />

Ritual was to be ^ a testimony unto <strong>the</strong>m.' <strong>The</strong><br />

Lord, certainly, did not wish to have <strong>the</strong> Law <strong>of</strong><br />

Moses broken—<strong>and</strong> broken, not superseded, it<br />

would have been, if its provisions had Jbeen<br />

inMnged before His Death, Ascension, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Coming <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Holy Ghost had brought <strong>the</strong>ir

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