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

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about <strong>the</strong> danger <strong>of</strong> those who broke <strong>the</strong> least<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>ment is so frequently expressed in Jewish<br />

writings, as scarcely to need special quotation.<br />

Only, <strong>the</strong>re it is put on <strong>the</strong> ground, that we know<br />

not w^t reward may attach to one or aeno<strong>the</strong>r<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>ment. <strong>The</strong> expression ' <strong>the</strong>y <strong>of</strong> old,' ®<br />

quite corresponds to <strong>the</strong> Rabbinic appeal to those<br />

that had preceded, <strong>the</strong> Zeqmim or Bishonim. In<br />

regard to St. Matt. y. 22, we remember that <strong>the</strong><br />

term ' bro<strong>the</strong>r' applied only to Jews, while <strong>the</strong><br />

Babbis used to designate <strong>the</strong> ignorant ^'^—or those<br />

who did not believe such exaggerations, as that in<br />

<strong>the</strong> future God would build up <strong>the</strong> gates <strong>of</strong><br />

Jerusalem with gems thirty cubits high <strong>and</strong> broad<br />

—as Beyqa* with this additional remark, that on<br />

one such occasion <strong>the</strong> look <strong>of</strong> a Rabbi had<br />

inmiediately turned <strong>the</strong> unbeliever into a heap <strong>of</strong><br />

bones!<br />

Again, <strong>the</strong> opprobrious term *fool' was by no<br />

means <strong>of</strong> uncommon occurrence among <strong>the</strong> sages;'<br />

<strong>and</strong> yet <strong>the</strong>y <strong>the</strong>mselves state, that to give an<br />

opprobrious by-name, or to put ano<strong>the</strong>r openly to

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