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

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<strong>the</strong> Gentiles by <strong>the</strong> Noachic comm<strong>and</strong>ments,<br />

although it is added, that, even had <strong>the</strong>y observed<br />

<strong>the</strong>m, <strong>the</strong>se would have carried no reward. And,<br />

although it is a prin-eiple that even a heddien, if he<br />

studied <strong>the</strong> Law, was to be esteemed like <strong>the</strong> High-<br />

Priest, yet it is argued, with <strong>the</strong> most perverse<br />

logic, that <strong>the</strong> reward <strong>of</strong> hea<strong>the</strong>ns who observed<br />

<strong>the</strong> Law must be less than<br />

ihal <strong>of</strong> thoae wIlo did so beo^use <strong>the</strong> Ijiw was gi?<br />

da timn, smee! <strong>the</strong> OfiA?. former acted from<br />

impalse, <strong>and</strong> not from obedienic^! XTm<br />

Even thus far <strong>the</strong> coatrast to <strong>the</strong> teaching <strong>of</strong> Jesna<br />

is taremendous. *~ " ~" A few far<strong>the</strong>r extracts will<br />

finally point <strong>the</strong> difference between <strong>the</strong> largenasB<br />

<strong>of</strong> Christ's World-Kingdom, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> narrowness <strong>of</strong><br />

Judaism. Most painfal as <strong>the</strong> exhibition <strong>of</strong><br />

pr<strong>of</strong>anity <strong>and</strong> national conceit is, it is needful in<br />

order to refute what we must oall <strong>the</strong> dating<br />

assMrtim, that <strong>the</strong> teaching <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>, or <strong>the</strong> Sermon<br />

on <strong>the</strong> Mount, had been derived from Jewish<br />

sources. At <strong>the</strong> same time it must cany to <strong>the</strong> mind,

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