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

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BOOK faultiness <strong>of</strong> soil, through which <strong>the</strong> seed<br />

did not spring np at all, or m merely sprang ap, or<br />

just reached <strong>the</strong> promise, but not <strong>the</strong> perfeo-<br />

'—■ ' tion <strong>of</strong> fruit, corresponded a threefold<br />

degree <strong>of</strong> fruit-bearing in <strong>the</strong><br />

soil, according to which it brought forth thirtyfold,<br />

siztyfold, or an hundredfold, in <strong>the</strong> yarying<br />

measure <strong>of</strong> its capacity.<br />

K even <strong>the</strong> disciples failed to comprehend <strong>the</strong><br />

whole bearing <strong>of</strong> this * Mystery <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom,'<br />

we can beUeve how utterly strange <strong>and</strong> un-Jewish<br />

such a Parable <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Messianic Kingdom must<br />

have sounded to <strong>the</strong>m, who had been influenced by<br />

<strong>the</strong> Pharisaic representations <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Person <strong>and</strong><br />

Teaching <strong>of</strong> Christ. And yet <strong>the</strong> while <strong>the</strong>se very<br />

hearers were, unconsciously to <strong>the</strong>mselves,<br />

fulfilling what <strong>Jesus</strong> was speaking to <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong><br />

Parable! •St itok Whe<strong>the</strong>r or not <strong>the</strong> Parable

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