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

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to <strong>the</strong> whole tenour <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> narrative, indeed <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

Gospel-history ; so that <strong>the</strong> alternative is its simple<br />

acceptance or it6 rejection. 8h'au88 boldly decides<br />

for <strong>the</strong> latter, but in so doing is met by <strong>the</strong> obvious<br />

objection, that his denial does not rest on any<br />

historical foundation. We C€ui underst<strong>and</strong>, how a<br />

legend could ga<strong>the</strong>r around historical facts <strong>and</strong><br />

embellish <strong>the</strong>m, but not how a narrative so entirely<br />

without precedent in <strong>the</strong> Old Testament, <strong>and</strong> so<br />

opposed, not only to <strong>the</strong> common Messianic<br />

expectation, but to Jewish thought, could have been<br />

invented to glorify a Jewish <strong>Messiah</strong>.'<br />

As regards <strong>the</strong> restoration to life <strong>of</strong> Jairus'<br />

daughter, <strong>the</strong>re is a like difference in <strong>the</strong> negative<br />

school (between Keim <strong>and</strong> Strauss). One party<br />

insists that <strong>the</strong> maiden only seemed, but was not<br />

really dead, a view open also to this objection,<br />

that it is manifestly impossible by such devices to<br />

account for <strong>the</strong> raising <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> young man at Nain, or<br />

that <strong>of</strong> Lazarus. On <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r h<strong>and</strong>, Strause treats<br />

<strong>the</strong> whole as a myth. It is well, that in this case he<br />

should have con*' descended to argument in

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