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

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i»LeT.U.18 •Dent.<br />

*Ber. fta •Bex, 6 b<br />

In ano<strong>the</strong>r sense, also, <strong>the</strong>ve was a higher ' need<br />

be' for <strong>the</strong> word CHAP, which brought<br />

forgiveness, before that which gave healing.<br />

Although XVI it is not for a moment to be<br />

supposed, that, in what <strong>Jesus</strong> did. He had '<br />

primary intention in regard to <strong>the</strong> Scribes, yet here<br />

also, as in all Divine acts, <strong>the</strong> undesigned<br />

adaptation <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> undesigned sequences are as<br />

fitting as what we call <strong>the</strong> designed. For, with God<br />

<strong>the</strong>re is nei<strong>the</strong>r past nor future; nei<strong>the</strong>r immediate<br />

nor mediate; but all is one, <strong>the</strong> eternally <strong>and</strong> Godpervaded<br />

Present. Let us recall, that <strong>Jesus</strong> was in<br />

<strong>the</strong> presence <strong>of</strong> those in whom <strong>the</strong> Scribes would<br />

fain have wrought disbelief, not <strong>of</strong> His power to<br />

cure disease—which was patent to all—but in His<br />

Person <strong>and</strong> authority; that, perhaps, such doubts<br />

had already been excited. And here it deserves<br />

special notice, that, by first speaking forgiveness,

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