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

which He had historically sprung. In this part of
His earthly course the antagonism appeared,
indeed, so to speak, in a positive rather than
negative form, that is, rather in what He affirmed
than in what He combated, because the opposition
to Him was not yet fully developed; whereas in the
second part of ■•x course it was, for a similar
reason, rather negative than positive. From the first
this antagonism was there in what He taught and
did; and it appeared with increasing distinctness in
proportion as He taught. We find it in the whole
spirit and bearing of what He did and said—in the
house at Capernaum, in the Synagogues, with the
Gentile Centurion, at the gate of Nain, and
especially here, in the history of the much forgiven
woman who had much sinned. A Jevrish Rabbi
could not have so acted and spoken; he would not
even have understood Jesus; nay, a Rabbi,
however gentle and pitiful, would in word and
deed have taken precisely the opposite direction
fh)m that of the Christ.
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