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

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eality ? or—oh, thought too horrible for utterance<br />

—could it have been a dream, bright but fleeting,<br />

uncaused by any reality, only <strong>the</strong> reflection <strong>of</strong> his<br />

own imagination ? It must have been a terrible<br />

houTi <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> power <strong>of</strong> darkness. At <strong>the</strong> end <strong>of</strong><br />

one's life, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>of</strong> such self-denial <strong>and</strong><br />

sufiering, <strong>and</strong> with a conscience so alive to God,<br />

which had—when a youth—driven him burning<br />

with holy zeal into <strong>the</strong> wilderness, to have such a<br />

question meeting him as: Art Thou He, or do we<br />

wait for ano<strong>the</strong>r ? Am I right, or in error <strong>and</strong><br />

leading o<strong>the</strong>rs into error? must have been truly<br />

aivful. Not Paul, when forsaken <strong>of</strong> all he lay in <strong>the</strong><br />

dungeon, <strong>the</strong> aged prisoner <strong>of</strong> Christ; not Huss,<br />

when alone at Constance he encountered <strong>the</strong> whole<br />

Catholic Council <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> flames; only He, <strong>the</strong><br />

Gtod-Man, over Whose soul crept <strong>the</strong> deathcoldness<br />

<strong>of</strong> great agony when, one by one, all light<br />

<strong>of</strong> Gtod <strong>and</strong> man seemed to fade out, <strong>and</strong> only that<br />

one remained burning—His own faith in <strong>the</strong><br />

Fa<strong>the</strong>r, could have experienced bitterness like this.<br />

Let no one dare to say that <strong>the</strong> faith <strong>of</strong> John failed,<br />

at least till <strong>the</strong> dark waters have rolled up to his

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