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

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so common among Jewish women.^<br />

As she stood behind Him at His Feet, reverently<br />

bending, a shower <strong>of</strong> tears, like sudden, quick<br />

summer-rain, that refireshes air <strong>and</strong> earth, '<br />

bedewed'' His Feet. As if surprised, or else afraid<br />

to awaken His attention, or defile Him by her<br />

tears, she quickly * wiped <strong>the</strong>m away with <strong>the</strong> long<br />

tresses <strong>of</strong> her hair that had fallen down <strong>and</strong><br />

touched Him,^ as she bent over His Feet. Nay, not<br />

to wash <strong>the</strong>m in such impure waters had she come,<br />

but to show such loving gratefulness <strong>and</strong> reverence<br />

as in her poverty she could, <strong>and</strong> in her humility she<br />

might <strong>of</strong>fer. And, now that her faith had grown<br />

bold in His Presence, she is continuing • to kiss<br />

those Feet which had brought to her <strong>the</strong> ' good<br />

tidings <strong>of</strong> peace,' <strong>and</strong> to anoint <strong>the</strong>m out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

alahastron round her neck. And still she spake not,<br />

nor yet He. For, as on her part silence seemed<br />

most fitting utterance, so on His, that He suffered it<br />

in silence was best <strong>and</strong> most fitting answer to her.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong>re was whose thoughts, far o<strong>the</strong>r than

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