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

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it jh)m <strong>the</strong> north-eadt by Endor. Hence <strong>the</strong>re can be<br />

little doubt, that Canoik Tristram correctly<br />

identifies <strong>the</strong> now unfenced biirying-'gifound,<br />

about ten miniites' walk to <strong>the</strong> east <strong>of</strong> Nain, as that<br />

whi<strong>the</strong>r, on that spring aftemoouj <strong>the</strong>y were<br />

carrying <strong>the</strong> Widow's sdn.' On <strong>the</strong> path leading to it<br />

<strong>the</strong> Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>Life</strong> for <strong>the</strong> first tiihe burst open <strong>the</strong><br />

gates <strong>of</strong> death.<br />

It is aU desolate now. A few houses <strong>of</strong> ihud <strong>and</strong><br />

stone with low doorways, scattered among heaps<br />

<strong>of</strong> stones <strong>and</strong> traced <strong>of</strong> walls, is all that remains <strong>of</strong><br />

What even <strong>the</strong>se ruins show to have been once a<br />

cityj with wblls <strong>and</strong> gates.* <strong>The</strong> rich gardens are<br />

no tnore, thfe fruit trees cut down^ ' <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>re is a<br />

painful sense <strong>of</strong> desolation' about <strong>the</strong> place, as if<br />

<strong>the</strong> bi-eath <strong>of</strong> judgment had swept over it. And yet<br />

even so we dan underst<strong>and</strong> its ancient name <strong>of</strong><br />

Nain, ' <strong>the</strong> pleasant,' * which <strong>the</strong> Babbis ti^^arded<br />

as fulfilling that part <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> plx)tniBe to Issachar: '<br />

he saw <strong>the</strong> l<strong>and</strong> that it was pleasant.' ^ Frotn <strong>the</strong><br />

elevation on which <strong>the</strong> city stood we look<br />

northwards^ across <strong>the</strong> wide plain, to Wooded

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