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

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<strong>and</strong> rapacity.<br />

<strong>The</strong> very word Mokhee seems, in its rootHneaning,<br />

associated with <strong>the</strong> idea <strong>of</strong> oppression <strong>and</strong><br />

injustice* He was literally, as t-eaUy, an<br />

oppressor. <strong>The</strong> Talmud charges <strong>the</strong>m with gross<br />

partiality, remittiDg in <strong>the</strong> case <strong>of</strong> those to whom<br />

<strong>the</strong>y wished to show fhvour, <strong>and</strong> exacting firom<br />

those who were not <strong>the</strong>ir favourites* <strong>The</strong>y were a<br />

criminal race^ to which Lev. xx. 5 applied. It was<br />

said, that <strong>the</strong>re never was a femiily which<br />

numbered a Mokhes, in which all did not become<br />

such. Still, eaeed are recorded when a religious<br />

puUican would extend fisivour to BabbiS) or give<br />

<strong>the</strong>m timely notice to go into hiding. If one belongs<br />

ing to <strong>the</strong> sacred association (a Chahher) became<br />

ei<strong>the</strong>r a GaJthai or a Mokhm^ he Was at once<br />

expelled, idthough he might be restored on<br />

• Jer. DenL repentance." That <strong>the</strong>re was ground for<br />

such rigour, appears fVom Bekhoi?si'a such au<br />

oCcurrenco,^ as when a Mohhes took from a<br />

defenceless person K^^ ^ , his ass^ giving him

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