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

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<strong>the</strong> cool <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> evening, amidst <strong>the</strong> trees <strong>of</strong> ike lost<br />

Garden; to us who, in very shame <strong>and</strong> sorrow,<br />

hide, <strong>and</strong> yet even so hear, not Words <strong>of</strong> judgment<br />

but <strong>of</strong> mercy, not concerning an irrevocaUe <strong>and</strong><br />

impossible piEust, but concerning a real <strong>and</strong> to us<br />

possible fixture, which IS that past, only betteri<br />

nearer^ dearer,—for, that it is not <strong>the</strong> human which<br />

has now to ktae to <strong>the</strong> Divine, but <strong>the</strong> Divine which<br />

has come down to <strong>the</strong> human.<br />

Or eke, turn from tids to a first reading <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

wisdom <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish fa<strong>the</strong>rs in titeir Talmud. It<br />

litde matters, what part be ohos^ for <strong>the</strong> puipOse.<br />

Here^ also, <strong>the</strong> reader is at disadvantage^ since his<br />

iiurtructors present to him too Irequently broken<br />

sentences, eitlraots torn from <strong>the</strong>ir connection,<br />

words <strong>of</strong>ten miMaranslated as re* gards <strong>the</strong>ir real<br />

meaning, or misapplied as regaids <strong>the</strong>ir bearing<br />

<strong>and</strong> ■parity at best, only isi^ted sentenoee. Take<br />

<strong>the</strong>se in <strong>the</strong>ir connect tkMk Imd teel meaning, <strong>and</strong><br />

what a terrible awakening! Who, thai has read<br />

half-a-dozen pages successively <strong>of</strong> any part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Talmud, csettifbel oliie^n^rise than by turns

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