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

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seem to me little deserving <strong>of</strong> serious * Godet has<br />

some exoelleiit teoai^ on<br />

treatment. Sometimes <strong>the</strong>y rest on this point,<br />

assumptions whioh, to say <strong>the</strong> least, aze<br />

as a toaching representation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> plea <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

younger with hifl elder OHAP. bro<strong>the</strong>r at <strong>the</strong> door<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fa<strong>the</strong>r's House. XIX<br />

But <strong>the</strong> fiindamental truth in both acoounts is <strong>the</strong><br />

same; nor is ' ' it just to say that in <strong>the</strong> narrative <strong>the</strong><br />

Gentiles are preferred before Israel. So far from<br />

this, <strong>the</strong>ir faith is only put on an equality with that<br />

<strong>of</strong> believing Israel. It is not Israel, but Israel's<br />

fleshly claims <strong>and</strong> unbelief, that are rejected; <strong>and</strong><br />

Gentile faith occupies, not a new position outside<br />

Israel, but shares with Abraham, Isaac, <strong>and</strong> Jacob<br />

<strong>the</strong> fulfilment <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> promise made to <strong>the</strong>ir faith.<br />

Thus we have here <strong>the</strong> widest Jewish<br />

universalism, <strong>the</strong> true interpretation <strong>of</strong> Israel's<br />

hope; <strong>and</strong> this, even by <strong>the</strong> admission <strong>of</strong> our<br />

opponent!},^ not as a later addition, but as forming

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