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

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preaching among <strong>the</strong> Jews <strong>and</strong> in Palestine. Bnt<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir ultimate bearing is already wider, <strong>and</strong><br />

indodes predictions <strong>and</strong> principles troe to aD time.<br />

In ▼iew cf <strong>the</strong> treatment which <strong>the</strong>ir Master<br />

received, <strong>the</strong> disciples mnst expect<br />

misrepresentation <strong>and</strong> evO-speaking. Nor coold it<br />

seem strange to <strong>the</strong>m, since even <strong>the</strong> common<br />

Rabbinic proverb had it:' * It is enough for a<br />

servant to be as his lord' (n-o Knn^13]6 xn)- ^ we<br />

hear it from <strong>the</strong> lips cS Christ, we remember that<br />

this saying afterwards comfcRted those, who<br />

monmed <strong>the</strong> down&Il <strong>of</strong> wealthy <strong>and</strong> liberal<br />

homes in Israel, by thoaghts <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> greater calamity<br />

which had overthrown Jerosalem <strong>and</strong> die Temple.<br />

And very significant is its application by Christ: '<br />

If <strong>the</strong>y have called <strong>the</strong> Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> house<br />

Beelzebol,* how much more <strong>the</strong>m <strong>of</strong> His<br />

honsehold.' This diai^ brooght <strong>of</strong> coarse by <strong>the</strong><br />

Pharisaic party <strong>of</strong> Jerosalem, had a donUe<br />

significance. We bdieve, that <strong>the</strong> expression '<br />

Master <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> honse' looked back to <strong>the</strong> claims<br />

which Jesns had made on His first purification <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> Temple. We almost seem to hear <strong>the</strong> coarse

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