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

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appointed for public fasts, because Moses was<br />

supposed to have gone up <strong>the</strong> Mount for <strong>the</strong> second<br />

Tables <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Law on a Thursday, <strong>and</strong> to have<br />

returned on a Monday. <strong>The</strong> self-introspection <strong>of</strong><br />

Pharisaism led many to fast on <strong>the</strong>se two days all<br />

<strong>the</strong> year T«an.i«a; round,** just as in Templetimes<br />

not a few would <strong>of</strong>ier daily trespass-▼iii.li<br />

<strong>of</strong>fering for sins <strong>of</strong> which <strong>the</strong>y were ignorant. <strong>The</strong>n<br />

<strong>the</strong>re were<br />

' Thus viewed <strong>the</strong>re is no contradiction, grossest,<br />

<strong>and</strong> pro&nest absurdities,<br />

not even real variation, between St. Matt. ' Thus a<br />

three days' fast would be on<br />

ix. 14, St. Mark ii. 18, <strong>and</strong> St. Luke v. 33. <strong>the</strong><br />

second, fifth, <strong>and</strong> again on <strong>the</strong> seoond<br />

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week, contains a mixture <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> strangesti<br />

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