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

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TRANSFTGUKATtON.<br />

BOOK more stricily enforced by every<br />

oonsideration <strong>of</strong> hnmanity <strong>and</strong> piet^*,<br />

ni even by <strong>the</strong> example <strong>of</strong> God Himself, than that<br />

<strong>of</strong> comforting <strong>the</strong><br />

monmers <strong>and</strong> showing respect to <strong>the</strong> dead by<br />

accompanying him<br />

•Beciss to <strong>the</strong> burying.*' <strong>The</strong> popular idea, that <strong>the</strong><br />

spirit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> dead hovered about <strong>the</strong> unburied<br />

remains, must have given intensity to such feelings.<br />

Putting aside later superstitions, so little has<br />

changed in <strong>the</strong> Jewish rites <strong>and</strong> observances about<br />

<strong>the</strong> dead,* that fixmi Talmudic <strong>and</strong> even earlier<br />

sources,' we can form a vivid conception <strong>of</strong> what<br />

had taken place in Nain. <strong>The</strong> watchful anxiety; <strong>the</strong><br />

vain use <strong>of</strong> such means as were known, or within<br />

reach <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> widow; <strong>the</strong> deepening care, <strong>the</strong><br />

passionate longing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mo<strong>the</strong>r to retain her one

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