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

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unwelcome duty <strong>of</strong> carefully examining <strong>and</strong> testing<br />

<strong>the</strong>m. But to this only <strong>the</strong> briefest possible<br />

reference has been made, <strong>and</strong> chiefly in <strong>the</strong><br />

beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>se volumes.<br />

Ano<strong>the</strong>r explanation seems more necessary in this<br />

connection. In describing <strong>the</strong> Traditionalism <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

time <strong>of</strong> Christ, I must have said<br />

PREFACE TO THE HBST EDITION. Zf<br />

wliat| I fear, majiinost unwillingly on my part,<br />

wound <strong>the</strong> feelings <strong>of</strong> (ume who still ding, if not to<br />

<strong>the</strong> fidth <strong>of</strong>, yet to what now repreBonta <strong>the</strong> ancient<br />

Synagogue. But let me appeal to <strong>the</strong>ir fairness. I<br />

must needs state what I believe to be <strong>the</strong> facts; <strong>and</strong><br />

I could nei<strong>the</strong>r keep <strong>the</strong>m back nor s<strong>of</strong>ten <strong>the</strong>m,<br />

since it was <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> very essence <strong>of</strong> my argument to<br />

present Christ as both in contact <strong>and</strong> in contrast<br />

with Jewish Traditionalism. No educated Western<br />

Jew would, in <strong>the</strong>se days, confess himself as<br />

occupying <strong>the</strong> exact st<strong>and</strong>point <strong>of</strong> Rabbinic<br />

Traditionalism. Some will select parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>

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