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

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not tme ? It is an ingenious historical suggestion—<br />

ra<strong>the</strong>r an admission by negative criticism ^—^that<br />

so insignificant, <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rwise unknown, a place<br />

as Nain would not have been fixed upon as <strong>the</strong> site<br />

<strong>of</strong> this miracle, if some great event had not<br />

joccurred <strong>the</strong>re which made lasting iibpression on<br />

<strong>the</strong> mind <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Church. What was {<br />

that event, <strong>and</strong> does not <strong>the</strong> reading <strong>of</strong> this record<br />

cany conviction <strong>of</strong> its truth ? Legends have not<br />

been so written. Once more, <strong>the</strong> miracle is<br />

described as having taken place, not in <strong>the</strong><br />

seclusion gf a chamber, nor before a few interested<br />

witnesses, but in sight <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great multitude which<br />

had followed <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>and</strong> <strong>of</strong> that o<strong>the</strong>r great<br />

multitude which came from Cana. In this tw<strong>of</strong>old<br />

great multitude was <strong>the</strong>re none, from whom <strong>the</strong><br />

enemies <strong>of</strong> Christianity could have wrung<br />

contradiction, if <strong>the</strong> narrative was false ? Still<br />

fur<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> history is told, with such<br />

circumstantiality <strong>of</strong> details; as to be inconsistent<br />

with <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>ory <strong>of</strong> a later invention. Lastly, no one<br />

will question, that belief in <strong>the</strong> reality <strong>of</strong> such

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