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

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towards His host, <strong>and</strong> still in manner that he could<br />

not mistake. What follows is not, as generally<br />

supposed, parable but. an illustration.<br />

Accordingly, it must in no way be pressed. With<br />

this explanation vanish all <strong>the</strong> supposed<br />

difficulties about <strong>the</strong> Pharisees being * little<br />

forgiven,' <strong>and</strong> hence ' loving little.' To convince<br />

Simon <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> error <strong>of</strong> his conclusion, that, if <strong>the</strong> life<br />

<strong>of</strong> that woman had been known, <strong>the</strong> Prophet must<br />

have forbidden her touch <strong>of</strong> love, <strong>Jesus</strong> Bntered<br />

into <strong>the</strong> Pharisee's own modes <strong>of</strong> reasoning. Of<br />

two debtors, one <strong>of</strong> whom owed ten times as much<br />

as <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r,* who would best love <strong>the</strong> creditor *<br />

who had freely * forgiven<br />

CHAP. XXI<br />

•▼ex. 41<br />

" In <strong>the</strong> A.V.<br />

* <strong>The</strong> Talmnd, with its nBaal exag-geratioD, has<br />

this story when commenting on <strong>the</strong> reverence due

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