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

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home—said <strong>and</strong> did, is most pictorial. On tidings<br />

reaching <strong>the</strong>m,^ with reiterated, growing, mid<br />

perhaps Orientally exaggerating details, <strong>the</strong>y<br />

hastened out <strong>of</strong> tiieir house in a neighbour^ ing<br />

street* to take possession <strong>of</strong> Him, as if He had<br />

needed <strong>the</strong>ir charge. It is not necessary to include<br />

<strong>the</strong> Mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong> in <strong>the</strong> number <strong>of</strong> those who<br />

actually went. Indeed, <strong>the</strong> later express<br />

mention <strong>of</strong> His ' Mo<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong> brethren' * seems<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r opposed to <strong>the</strong> •Si. iM<br />

• ill* ti<br />

supposition. Still less does <strong>the</strong> objection deserve<br />

serious refritation,*<br />

that any such procedure, assumedly, on <strong>the</strong> part <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Virgin-Mo<strong>the</strong>r, would be incompatible with <strong>the</strong><br />

history <strong>of</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>' Nativity. For, all must have felt,<br />

that ' <strong>the</strong> zeal' <strong>of</strong> Grod's House was, literally, '<br />

consuming' Him, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r view <strong>of</strong> it, that it<br />

was setting on fire, not <strong>the</strong> physical, but <strong>the</strong>

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