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

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exactly paraiiel: ^ My hmnality is<br />

A St tfty greatness, imd my greatness my humility/<br />

whidi, be it observed,<br />

is elicited by a BabUnic aocoimmodation <strong>of</strong> Ps.<br />

cxiii. 5, 6: ' Who is ezaited to sit, who humUeth<br />

himself to behold.' It is <strong>the</strong> omissioii on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong><br />

modem writers <strong>of</strong> this explanatory addition, whidi<br />

hat given <strong>the</strong> «aytng <strong>of</strong> Hillei even <strong>the</strong> fidntest<br />

likeness to <strong>the</strong> firsi Beatitode.<br />

But ev«n so, wliat <strong>of</strong> €he promise <strong>of</strong> ' <strong>the</strong> Kingdom<br />

<strong>of</strong> Heaven ?' What iA <strong>the</strong> menniiig which<br />

Babbinism attaches to that phrase, <strong>and</strong> would it<br />

have entered <strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> a Babbi to promise what<br />

ke <strong>and</strong>er> stood as 1^ Kingdom to aU men,<br />

Gentiles as well as Jews, who were poor in<br />

iipirit? We Tecall here <strong>the</strong> £ate <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Gentiles in<br />

Messianic di^yB, <strong>and</strong>, to prevent misstatements,<br />

summanse <strong>the</strong> opening pages cl

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