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

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shocked^ pained, amused, or abounded? <strong>The</strong>re is<br />

here wit <strong>and</strong> logic, quickness <strong>and</strong> readittess,<br />

eameitnMi waA<br />

seal, bat by <strong>the</strong> side <strong>of</strong> it terrible pio&nity,<br />

nndeaimees, snperstifioii, <strong>and</strong> folly. Taken as a<br />

whole, it is not only ntteriy onspiritaaly but antispiritual.<br />

Not that <strong>the</strong> Talmud is worse than might<br />

be expected <strong>of</strong> such writings in such times <strong>and</strong><br />

circumstances, perhaps in many respects much<br />

better—always bearing in mind <strong>the</strong> particular<br />

st<strong>and</strong>point <strong>of</strong> narrow nationalism, without which<br />

Talmudism itself oould noi have existed, <strong>and</strong><br />

which <strong>the</strong>refore is not an accretion, bat an<br />

essential part <strong>of</strong> it. But, taken not in abrupt<br />

sentences <strong>and</strong> quotations, bat as a whole, it is so<br />

utterly <strong>and</strong> immeasurably unlike <strong>the</strong> New<br />

Testament, that it is not easy to determine which,<br />

as <strong>the</strong> case may be, is greater, <strong>the</strong> ignorance or <strong>the</strong><br />

presumption <strong>of</strong> those who pat <strong>the</strong>m side by side.<br />

Even where spiritual life pulsates, it seems

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