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

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his own seeming Iobb,<br />

H^ which conld dond <strong>the</strong> noonday <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Baptist's<br />

oonyicttons. In simple Jndeean illustration, he was<br />

oolj ' <strong>the</strong> friend <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Bridegroom ' (<strong>the</strong> ^<br />

Shoshebheyna '), with all t^at popular aasociatiitm<br />

or higher Jewish allegory connected with that<br />

relationship.' He claimed not <strong>the</strong> bride. His was<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r joy—that <strong>of</strong> hearing <strong>the</strong> Voice <strong>of</strong> her<br />

rightfiil Bridegroom, Whose ' groomsman' he was.<br />

In <strong>the</strong> sound <strong>of</strong> that Voice lay <strong>the</strong> fulfilment <strong>of</strong> his<br />

<strong>of</strong>fice. And St. John, loddng back upon liie relation<br />

between tilie Baptist <strong>and</strong> <strong>Jesus</strong>r—

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