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

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ears, let him hear/<br />

Nay, but it was not so. <strong>The</strong> children <strong>of</strong> that<br />

generation expected quite ano<strong>the</strong>r Elijah <strong>and</strong> quite<br />

ano<strong>the</strong>r Christ, <strong>and</strong> disbelieved <strong>and</strong> complained,<br />

because <strong>the</strong> real Elijah <strong>and</strong> Christ did not meet<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir foolish thoughts. <strong>The</strong>y were like children in a<br />

market-place, who expected <strong>the</strong>ir fellows to adapt<br />

<strong>the</strong>mselves to <strong>the</strong> tunes <strong>the</strong>y played. It was as if<br />

<strong>the</strong>y said : We have expected great Messianic<br />

glory <strong>and</strong> national exaltation, <strong>and</strong> ye have not<br />

responded (^we have piped ^ unto you, <strong>and</strong> ye<br />

have not danced'); we have looked for deliverance<br />

from our national sufferings, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong>y stirred not<br />

your sympathies<br />

* <strong>The</strong> reader will mark <strong>the</strong> difference verse have<br />

seemed to me singularlj on-<br />

between <strong>the</strong> quotation as made by all <strong>the</strong><br />

satisfactory.<br />

three Evangelists, <strong>and</strong> onr present Hebrew *

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