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

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FROM JORDAK TO TOE MOtJNT OF<br />

TRANSFIOURAHOK.<br />

BOOK Jairas, one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Synagogae-rnlera ^ <strong>of</strong><br />

Gapemaom, had an only<br />

in daughter,' who at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong> this narratiye had<br />

just passed childhood,<br />

■ ^"^^ <strong>and</strong> reached <strong>the</strong> period when Jewish Law<br />

declared a woman <strong>of</strong> age.* Although St. Mat<strong>the</strong>w,<br />

contracting <strong>the</strong> whole narrative into briefest<br />

summary, speaks <strong>of</strong> her as dead at <strong>the</strong> time <strong>of</strong><br />

Jairus' application to <strong>Jesus</strong>, <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r two<br />

Evangelists, giving fuller details, describe her as<br />

on <strong>the</strong> point <strong>of</strong> death, literally, 'at <strong>the</strong> last breath'<br />

(inextremis)} Unless her disease had been both<br />

sudden <strong>and</strong> exceedingly rapid, which is barely<br />

possible, it is dijBScult to underst<strong>and</strong> why her

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