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

weakness of the other was due to defect, and
threatened to end in despair. In both cases faith had
to be called out, tried, purified, and so perfected;
in both the thing sought for was, humanly speaking,
unattainable, and the means employed seemingly
powerless; yet, in both, the outward and inward
results required were obtained through the power
of Christ, and by the peculiar discipline to which,
in His all-wise arranging, faith was subjected.
It sounds almost like a confession of absolute
defeat, when negative critics (such as Keim) have
to ground their mythical explanation of this hifltoiy
on the supposed symbolical meaning of what they
designate as the fictitious name of the Ruler of the
Synagogue— Jair, * he will give light' *—and
when they ^ further appeal to the • J«a ▼• •
correspondence between the age of the maiden and
the years (twelve) p- 47s during which the woman
had suffered from the bloody flux. This L^^jJaa
coincidence is, indeed, so trivial as not to deserve
serious notice; **•**• ^J* aince there can be no
conceivable connection between the age of the