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

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own <strong>the</strong>ir inferiority, <strong>and</strong> apprehend <strong>the</strong>ir defeat<br />

<strong>and</strong> subjection, especially on such an occasion;<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jew, whose consciousness was under <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

control—not unified, but identified with it —<br />

exclaimed: * I adjure <strong>The</strong>e by God, that Thou<br />

torment me not.'<br />

This strange mixture <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demoniac with <strong>the</strong><br />

human, or ra<strong>the</strong>r, this expression <strong>of</strong> underlying<br />

demoniac thought in <strong>the</strong> forms <strong>and</strong> modes <strong>of</strong><br />

thinking <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Jewish victim, explains <strong>the</strong><br />

expressed fear <strong>of</strong> present actual torment, or, as St.<br />

Mat<strong>the</strong>w, who, from <strong>the</strong> briefness <strong>of</strong> his account,<br />

does not seem to have been an eye-witness,<br />

expresses it: ' Thou art come to torment us before<br />

<strong>the</strong> time;' <strong>and</strong> possibly alsf for <strong>the</strong> ' adjuration by<br />

Ood.'' For, as immediately on <strong>the</strong> homag| <strong>and</strong><br />

protestation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demonised: ' What between me<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>The</strong>e^ <strong>Jesus</strong>, Thou Son <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Most High Qod<br />

?' Christ had comm<strong>and</strong>ed <strong>the</strong> unclean spirit to<br />

come out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> man, it may have been, that in so<br />

doing He h{(d used <strong>the</strong> Name <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Most High<br />

Grod; or else <strong>the</strong> ^ adjuration' itself may have been

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