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

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child <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> duration <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> woman's disease, nor,<br />

indeed, between <strong>the</strong> two cases, except in this, that<br />

both appealed to <strong>Jesus</strong>. As regards <strong>the</strong> name<br />

Jairus, <strong>the</strong> supposed symbolism is inapt; while<br />

internal reasons are opposed to <strong>the</strong> hypo<strong>the</strong>sis <strong>of</strong><br />

its fictitiousness. For, it seems most unlikely that<br />

St. Mark <strong>and</strong> St. Luke would have rendered <strong>the</strong><br />

discovery <strong>of</strong> * a myth' easy by needlessly breaking<br />

<strong>the</strong> silence <strong>of</strong> St. Mat<strong>the</strong>w, <strong>and</strong> giving <strong>the</strong> name <strong>of</strong><br />

so well-known a person aa a Synagogue-ruler <strong>of</strong><br />

Capernaum. And this <strong>the</strong> more readily, that <strong>the</strong><br />

name, though occurring in <strong>the</strong> Old Testament, <strong>and</strong><br />

in <strong>the</strong> ranks <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Nationalist party in <strong>the</strong> last<br />

Jewish War,^ was •/«». Jewi«ii<br />

WftT tL 1 8<br />

apparently not a common one.^ But <strong>the</strong>se are<br />

comparatively small oiom difficulties in <strong>the</strong> way<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> mythical interpretation.<br />

* Ck)xnp. St. Lake viiL 45; St. Mark (Numb, zzzii.<br />

41; Judg. x. 8), does not ▼. 31. occur in Rabbinio

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