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

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found <strong>the</strong> treasure, so farfromdaim-<br />

for you I Even as it is written (Ps. zxzL ing, miged<br />

its owner to to^ it back. iO; 1> in our A-Y.).<br />

(Pesiqta, ed. B^.<br />

HOOZ<br />

fttnong <strong>the</strong> com, it would certainly be his, if he<br />

bought <strong>the</strong> oom. If he had found it on <strong>the</strong> ground, or<br />

in <strong>the</strong> soil, it would equally cei^ tainly belong to<br />

him, if he could claim ownership <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> soil, <strong>and</strong><br />

even if <strong>the</strong> field were not his own, unless o<strong>the</strong>rs<br />

could prove <strong>the</strong>ir right to it. <strong>The</strong> law went so ftur<br />

as to adjudge to <strong>the</strong> purchaser <strong>of</strong> fruits anything<br />

found among <strong>the</strong>se fruits. This will suffice to<br />

vindicate a question <strong>of</strong> detail, which, in any case,<br />

should not be too closely pressed in a parabolic<br />

history.<br />

But to resume our analysis. In <strong>the</strong> second Parable<br />

we have a wise merchantman who travels in<br />

search <strong>of</strong> pearls, <strong>and</strong> when he finds one which in

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