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

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Philodemut were natives was, <strong>of</strong> course, not <strong>the</strong><br />

scene <strong>of</strong> this miracle.<br />

* As this healing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> demonised may be<br />

regarded as <strong>the</strong> 'test-case' on <strong>the</strong> general question,<br />

I have entered more fnlly on <strong>the</strong> discussion. <strong>The</strong><br />

arguments in ^vonr <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> general view taken <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

demonised are so dearly <strong>and</strong> forcibly stated by<br />

Archbishop Trench (on '<strong>The</strong> Miracles *) <strong>and</strong> in *<br />

<strong>The</strong> Speaker's Com-ineotaiy' (N. T<strong>of</strong>t vol I p. 44),<br />

tl^at it<br />

seems needless to reiterate <strong>the</strong>m. To me at least it<br />

seems difficult to. underst<strong>and</strong>, how Any reader <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> narrative, who comes to it without<br />

preconceived opinions, can arrive at any o<strong>the</strong>r<br />

conclusion than that ei<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> whole must be<br />

rejected as mythical, or else be received as<br />

implying that <strong>the</strong>re was a demonised state,<br />

different from madness; that <strong>Jesus</strong> treated <strong>the</strong><br />

present as such; bade <strong>the</strong> unclean spirits go out,<br />

<strong>and</strong> by His word banished <strong>the</strong>m. <strong>The</strong> objection as<br />

to Uie morality <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> destruction <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> herd seems

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