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

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eligiously) [i)f/ft)o-a, pondus habens, ejusdem<br />

ponderis cum aliquo, pretio aequans] to come unto<br />

<strong>The</strong>e.' Now, markedly, in St. Matdiew's<br />

presentation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> same event to <strong>the</strong> Jews, this<br />

latter ' worthiness' is omitted, <strong>and</strong> we only have St.<br />

Luke's first term, * fit' (Uavosf):<br />

* I am not fit that thou shouldest come under my<br />

ro<strong>of</strong>,' my house is unfitting Thine entrance. This<br />

seems to bear out <strong>the</strong> reasons previously indicated<br />

for <strong>the</strong> characteristic peculiarities <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> two<br />

narratives.<br />

But in <strong>the</strong>ir gr<strong>and</strong> leading features <strong>the</strong> two<br />

narratives entirely agree. <strong>The</strong>re is earnest<br />

supplication for his sick, seemingly dying servant.^<br />

Again, <strong>the</strong> Centurion in <strong>the</strong> fullest sense believes<br />

in <strong>the</strong> power<br />

' Without <strong>the</strong> article ; perhaps only * St. Matt. viii.<br />

6, literally, * my servant<br />

some <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m went on this err<strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> has been

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