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

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new found happiness; as if <strong>the</strong>re were calm, safety,<br />

<strong>and</strong> happiness only in His Presence; not far from<br />

Him—not among those wild mountains <strong>and</strong> yet<br />

wilder men. Why should he be driven from His<br />

fellowship, who had so long been an outcast from<br />

that <strong>of</strong> his fellow-men, <strong>and</strong> why again left to<br />

himself? So, perhaps, should we have reasoned<br />

<strong>and</strong> spoken; so too <strong>of</strong>ten do we reason <strong>and</strong> speak,<br />

as regards ourselves or those we love. Not so He<br />

Who appoints alike our discipline <strong>and</strong> our work.<br />

To go back, now healed, to his own, <strong>and</strong> to publish<br />

<strong>the</strong>re, in <strong>the</strong> city—nay, through <strong>the</strong> whole <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

large district <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ten confederate cities, <strong>the</strong><br />

Decapolis—how great things <strong>Jesus</strong> had done for<br />

him, such was henceforth to be his life-work. In<br />

this <strong>the</strong>re would be both safety <strong>and</strong> happiness.<br />

' And all men did marvel.' And presently <strong>Jesus</strong><br />

Himself came back into that Decapolis, where <strong>the</strong><br />

healed demonised had prepared <strong>the</strong> way for Him.*<br />

> This is <strong>the</strong> view <strong>of</strong> Archdeacon Farrar, <strong>The</strong><br />

Gadara <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong> poets MeUager <strong>and</strong>

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