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

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her heart, <strong>the</strong> more years passed, <strong>and</strong> she<br />

increasingly felt, as <strong>the</strong>y passed, that, both in His<br />

early obscurity <strong>and</strong> in Hift later manifestation, she<br />

could not penetrate into <strong>the</strong> real meaning <strong>of</strong> that<br />

mystery, with which she was so closely connected.<br />

She could not underst<strong>and</strong> it; how dared she speak<br />

<strong>of</strong> it ? She could not underst<strong>and</strong>; nay, we can<br />

almost perceive, how she might even<br />

misunderst<strong>and</strong>—not <strong>the</strong> fact, but <strong>the</strong> meaning <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> purport <strong>of</strong> what had passed.<br />

But in Nazareth <strong>the</strong>y knew nothing <strong>of</strong> all this; <strong>and</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> Him only as that Infant Whom His parents,<br />

Joseph <strong>the</strong> carpenter <strong>and</strong> Mary, had brought with<br />

<strong>the</strong>m months after <strong>the</strong>y had first left Nazareth.<br />

Jewish law <strong>and</strong> custom made it possible, that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

might have been married long before. And now<br />

<strong>the</strong>y only knew <strong>of</strong> this humble &mily, that <strong>the</strong>y<br />

lived in retirement, <strong>and</strong> that sons <strong>and</strong> daughters had<br />

grown around <strong>the</strong>ir humble board. Of <strong>Jesus</strong>,<br />

indeed, <strong>the</strong>y must have heard that He was not like<br />

o<strong>the</strong>rs around—so quite different^ in all ways, as<br />

He grew in wisdom <strong>and</strong> stature, <strong>and</strong> in &vour with

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