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

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own guilt, <strong>the</strong>y had previously arrived. Through<br />

this, what might, <strong>and</strong>, in o<strong>the</strong>r circumstances,<br />

would, have conveyed spiritual instruction,<br />

necessarily became that which still fur<strong>the</strong>r <strong>and</strong><br />

fatally darkened <strong>and</strong> dulled <strong>the</strong>ir minds <strong>and</strong> hearts.<br />

Thus <strong>the</strong>ir own hardening merged into <strong>the</strong> ^ S!*^<br />

judgment <strong>of</strong> hardening.**<br />

' 80 even QoeM (i. pp. 33-42, <strong>and</strong> especially p.<br />

38).<br />

THE 'MYSTERIES OF THE KINGDOBL' bH\<br />

We are now in some measupe able to underst<strong>and</strong>,<br />

why Christ now CHAP, for <strong>the</strong> first time adopted<br />

parabolic teaching. Its reason lay in <strong>the</strong> XXin<br />

altered circumstances <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> case. All His former<br />

teaching had been plain, although initial. In it He<br />

had set forth by Word, <strong>and</strong> exhibited by fact (in<br />

miracles), that Kingdom <strong>of</strong> God which He had<br />

come to open to all believers. <strong>The</strong> hearers had<br />

now ranged <strong>the</strong>mselves into two parties. Those<br />

who, whe<strong>the</strong>r temporarily or permanently (as <strong>the</strong>

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