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

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Apocryphal <strong>and</strong> Pseudepigraphic literature which<br />

comes from Palestine, or was originally written in<br />

Hebrew, we possess it no longer in that language,<br />

but only in translation.<br />

K from this brief review <strong>of</strong> Hellenist <strong>and</strong><br />

Pseudepigraphic literature we turn to take a<br />

retrospect, we can scarcely fail to perceive,<br />

' For • bii<strong>of</strong> review <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> ' Psendepigraphio<br />

Writings/ see Appendix I.<br />

on <strong>the</strong> one h<strong>and</strong>, <strong>the</strong> development <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> old, <strong>and</strong> on<br />

<strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r <strong>the</strong> otiAP. preparation for <strong>the</strong> new—in<br />

o<strong>the</strong>r words, <strong>the</strong> gr<strong>and</strong> expectancy in awakened,<br />

<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> gr<strong>and</strong> preparation made. One step only<br />

remained * ^""^ to complete what Hellenism had<br />

already began. That completion came through one<br />

who, although himself untouched by <strong>the</strong> Gospel,<br />

perhaps more than any o<strong>the</strong>r prepared alike his coreligionists<br />

<strong>the</strong> Jews, <strong>and</strong> his countrymen <strong>the</strong><br />

Greeks, for <strong>the</strong> new teaching, which, indeed, was<br />

presented by many <strong>of</strong> its early advocates in <strong>the</strong>

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