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

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seed, in <strong>the</strong> most humble <strong>and</strong> unpromising manner,<br />

would grow till it far outstripped all o<strong>the</strong>r similar<br />

plants, <strong>and</strong> gave shelter to all nations under<br />

heaven.<br />

To this extensive power <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Kingdom<br />

corresponded its intensive character, whe<strong>the</strong>r in<br />

<strong>the</strong> world at large or in <strong>the</strong> individual. This formed<br />

<strong>the</strong> subject <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> last <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Parables addressed at<br />

this time to <strong>the</strong> people—^that <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Leaven. We<br />

need not here resort to ingenious methods <strong>of</strong><br />

explaining ' <strong>the</strong> three measures,' or Seahs, <strong>of</strong> meal<br />

in which <strong>the</strong> leaven was hid. Three Seahs were an<br />

Ephah,^ <strong>of</strong> n Men. tIL i which <strong>the</strong> exact capacity<br />

differed in various districts. According to <strong>the</strong> socalled<br />

^ wilderness,' or original Biblical,<br />

measurement, it was<br />

» Comp. Tristram, Nat. Hist, <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bible, p. 472.<br />

<strong>The</strong> quotations in Bux-tarft Lex. Eabb. pp. 822.<br />

823, on which <strong>the</strong> supposed Babbinic illustrations<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> growth <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> plant are based (Light' foot,<br />

Sohottgen, Wetttein, even VorsHui And Winer),

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