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

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But on those who saw this miracle at Nain fell <strong>the</strong><br />

fear * <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> felt Divine Presence, <strong>and</strong> over <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

souls swept <strong>the</strong> hymn <strong>of</strong> Divine praise: fear,<br />

because' a great Prophet was risen up among <strong>the</strong>m;<br />

praise, because* God had visited* His people.<br />

And far<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong> wider spread <strong>the</strong> wave—over<br />

Judsea, <strong>and</strong> beyond it, until it washed, <strong>and</strong> broke in<br />

faint murmur against <strong>the</strong> prison-walls, within<br />

which <strong>the</strong> Baptist awaited his martyrdom. Was He<br />

<strong>the</strong>n <strong>the</strong> ^Coming One?' <strong>and</strong>, if so, why did, or how<br />

could, those walls keep His messenger within<br />

grasp <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> tyrant?*<br />

' <strong>The</strong> term avyicvplci, rendered in <strong>the</strong> *<br />

Significantly, <strong>the</strong> same expfession as<br />

A.V. 'chance' (St. Luke z. 31), means in St. Luke i.<br />

68.<br />

literally, <strong>the</strong> coming toge<strong>the</strong>r, <strong>the</strong> meet * <strong>The</strong><br />

embassy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bapttst will be<br />

ing, or concurrence <strong>of</strong> events. described in

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